Alessandro Busà > Alessandro's Quotes

“Detroit is big enough to matter in the world and small enough for you to matter in it.”
― Jeanette Pierce

“I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.”
― Truman Capote

“You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

“And the space created by capital is a very seductive space indeed— provided you have the money.”
― Alessandro Busà, The Creative Destruction of New York City: Engineering the City for the Elite

“Over a decade of citywide rezonings, land speculations, and corporate bidding wars for available commercial space has produced a Darwinian habitat where corporate retail proliferates, and where mom-and-pops have become an endangered species.”
― Alessandro Busà, The Creative Destruction of New York City: Engineering the City for the Elite