The choices shouldn't be this or that. It should be this, that, other.
"I'm interested in how the everyday mundane practices of life get played out in cities, the unheralded patterns that take place without celebration. There's a structure to cities, a 4/4 beat. Designing is like improvisation, finding a sound for each place."
That's architect Walter Hood in Patricia Leigh Brown's He Measures Oakland's Beat, and Parks Bloom"