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“There would remain no sign of you ever having played in this house. Your childhood is going to be swept under a camel-skin rug and elevators are going to be built over the lake we once swam in. This address, as we know it, would be lost forever and we’ll wake up in a box-sized room: cramped, trampled and sensationally unhappy.' ('Left from Dhakeshwari')”

Home Childhood Memories Dislocation Urbanisation Rootsbelonging

Author:Kunal Sen

“In postcolonial Africa, single dwelling housing is the biggest perpetrator of urban segregation.”

Cities Africa Housing Segregation Urbanisation

Book:Dystopia: How The Tyranny of Specialists Fragment African Cities

Source: Dystopia: How The Tyranny of Specialists Fragment African Cities

“That Mrs. Munt should be the first to discover the misfortune was not remarkable, for she was so interested in the flats, that she watched their every mutation with unwearying care. In theory she despised them — they took away that old-world look — they cut off the sun — flats house a flashy type of person.”

Progress Real Estate Urbanism Sprawl Urbanisation

Book:Howards End

Source: Howards End

“A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure.”

“Laissée à elle-même, la bagnole finit par se détruire. Le temps que sa rapidité nous donne, elle nous le prend aussitôt pour nous expédier ailleurs. Comme le téléphone ou l'avion, pour une corvée qu'elle nous supprime, elle nous en invente mille. Elle nous mène à la campagne, mais bientôt, l'auto aidant, nous ne trouverons plus à cent kilomètres de voiture la baignade ou la verdure qui nous attendaient à cinq minutes de marche.”

Environment Vehicle Automobile Urbanism Urbanization Automobiles Vehicles Urbanisation Automobile Quotes

Book:L'Hommauto

Source: L'Hommauto

“While Australia is superficially referred to as a continental nation, upon closer scrutiny, it is in fact an archipelago.”

Cities Australia Urbanism Urbanisation

Book:The Australian Century

Source: The Australian Century

“Such was life; everything passed away; the fields and woodlands of boyhood became built upon; streets and pavements and lamp posts arose where warblers and willow wrens had sung; nothing ever remained the same.”

Progress Ecology Urbanisation

Book:The Golden Virgin

Source: The Golden Virgin

“It was as if the city’s old, mossy walls, its ancient fountains covered in beautiful script, and its wooden homes, twisting and rotting to the point of leaning on one another for support, had all been burned down and wrecked into nothingness, and the new streets, concrete houses, neon-lit shops, and apartment blocks taking their place had been built to seem even older, more intimidating and incomprehensible, than any place before. The city was no longer an enormous, familiar home but a faithless space in which anyone who got the chance added more concrete, more streets, courtyards, walls, pavements, and shops.”

Progress City Urbanisation

Book:A Strangeness in My Mind

Source: A Strangeness in My Mind

“Scotland's passage from a mainly pastoral and agrarian society to a commercial and industrial one was brutal, rapid and relentless. In that transition, an entire peasant class, the cottars - perhaps as much as half of the rural population - was lost forever. They and tens of thousands of even poorer people were forced off the land across the Lowlands, Highlands and islands. They ended up in towns, cities and planned villages, they worked in mills, mines, quarries and iron works, or they emigrated to other parts of the world, or became soldiers, sailors, engineers, administrators and merchants in the service of the British Empire or the companies that thrived under its bellicose protection. Many prospered, many did not.”

Commerce Scotland British Empire Clearance Pastoral Industrialisation Agrarian Highland Clearances Urbanisation

Book:Irish Pages, Vol. 12, No. 2: Scotland

Source: Irish Pages, Vol. 12, No. 2: Scotland