Avoid Quote by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

Most of suburbia will end up in three ways: ruins, slums, salvage yards for materials.

— James Howard Kunstler

We can't have it so there are skyscrapers side by side with slums.

— Li Keqiang

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

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

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

— Cyril Connolly

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

— Vikas Swarup

The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying…

— George Orwell

The people from the suburbs are bringing along their suburban values: cleanliness, orderliness, safety - dullness, in other words. As a result, urban areas…

— Rem Koolhaas

All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization… Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in…

— Aldous Huxley

From Sunbelt to Rustbelt, North to South, East to West, once-thriving cities have become little more than drug-infested slums.

— Gerald Celente

Having viewed slum clearance projects in most major cities of the world may I state that you have conceived and created in the Johannesburg…

— L. Ron Hubbard