Appropriate Quote by James Howard Kunstler

[Suburbia] represents, after all, the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world. We built it during our most affluent period of…

— James Howard Kunstler

“Suburban sprawl has heavily damaged the balance of our cities, divorcing environmental context from design and removing the concept of scale from the creation…

— Avi Friedman

Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals…

— Timothy Garton Ash

Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.

— Richard Rogers

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

— Anthony Trollope

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were…

— Jane Jacobs

You can use up all the slums for new development. In all the cities of the world, there are large areas of these. Also,…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on…

— Geoffrey West

The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering…

— Noam Chomsky

Slums could be thought of as the development of a special organ, or they could be thought of as a tumor that's grown, and…

— Geoffrey West

The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.

— Vikas Swarup

“The most striking fact of the day was the misery of the industrial proletariat. Despite the growth of the economy, or perhaps in part…

— Thomas Piketty