Source: Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“The good news is cities are extraordinarily resilient. The bad news is that they are also very hard to change.”
2010s
Source: Joao Medeiros. " The city in numbers: An equation that explains urban life http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/05/start/the-city-in-numbers," in wired.co.uk/magazine 29 March 2011.
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