“It got to be a tradition: we set fires when we're happy, we set fires when we're not, we set fires when we've got nothin' better to do. It got so the city itself stepped in. It burns itself down. Houses combust spontaneously, entire blocks go up in flames at our city's will.” CitiesFireTraditionBurningDetroitCombustionArsonFires Book:The Future Source: The Future
“Seems to me what it comes down to is, if a city's founded on a crime--" "Détroit is founded on a dream as much as a crime...” CitiesDreamsCrimeColonialismDetroit Book:The Future Source: The Future