“We are close to dead. There are faces and bodies like gorged maggots on the dance floor, on the highway, in the city, in the stadium; they are a host of chemical machines who swallow the product of chemical factories, aspirin, preservatives, stimulant, relaxant, and breathe out their chemical wastes into a polluted air. The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.” LongBodyLastsFacesNightCitiesAirProductsCivilizationWasteMachinesBreatheChemicalsHostFactoriesHighwaysLast NightStadiumsBack AgainDance FloorAspirinStimulantsMaggots Book:Cannibals and Christians Source: Cannibals and Christians
“Most brands that are called luxury brands today are not true luxury brands. The globalization of fashion and luxury means you now find the same luxury brands in every city. The stores look the same, the products are the same. It is still a very good quality product but it is now readily available to everyone. It's a kind of mass luxury.” LooksKindMeanStillsTodayCitiesQualityFashionProductsMassVery GoodAvailableStoresLuxuryBrandsGlobalizationGood Quality Author:Monita Rajpal
“The city an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of every moral zone. It is cosmopolitan, not only in a national, but a spiritual sense.” WorldSpiritualSocialCitiesMoralProductsCivilizationZoneBeltsAvenuesEpitome Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“What we think of as Halloween is really the product of media barons, city mayors, and candy-makers. You know, before the 1920s, Halloween was really a terrible, terrible night.” ThinkingKnowsNightCitiesMediaProductsTerribleMakersHalloweenCandyMayors Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“As industries migrate toward the Far East, the future of many Western cities will no longer lie in manufacturing products but ideas and patents. Young, mobile elites can choose where they want to live, and they can easily move, which means that cities are involved in a heated competition for the best people. Only the most attractive cities can benefit from this development.” PeopleWantMeanIdeasMovingYoungLyingCitiesProductsDevelopmentIndustryInvolvedBenefitsCompetitionWesternEastAttractiveElitesMobileManufacturingPatentsMigrate Author:Charles Landry
“Overall the cost of living in Ho Chi Minh City is cheap and if you can stay away from Western restaurants and use just local products in your everyday life it's really cheap.” IfsUseCitiesProductsCostWesternEverydayLocalsRestaurantsEveryday LifeCost Of Living Author:Doug Rice
“The US does not observe the free-trade principles. Those are for the weak. So agribusiness is highly subsidized and pours product into Mexico and drives out Mexican farmers. Maybe they have to go into the cities, and they don't have jobs to support them, so they flee across the border.” DoeJobsCitiesPrinciplesSupportProductsWeakTradeBordersFarmersMexicoMexicanFree TradeAgribusiness Author:Noam Chomsky