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A city has values as well as slums, excitement as well as conflict a personality that has not yet been obliterated by its highways and gas stations.

Charles Abrams

We get rated down by homeowners associations because we have no slums.

Day One

Between 35,000 to 40,000 homes were destroyed. Even the upper-middle class homes look like slums now. You can't differentiate the class areas anymore.

Lon Lack

Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than to submit to the desolation of an empty abundance. It is a strange part of the other America that one finds in the intellectual slums.

Michael Harrington