What kind of city we wish to build should reflect our personal wishes and needs.

The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin.

The equilibrium between supply and demand is achieved only through a reaction against the upsetting of the equilibrium.

Cities begin to use cultural production as a way to market their city as being unique and special. Of course, the problem with this is that much of culture is very easy to replicate. The uniqueness begins to disappear. Then, we have what I call the "Disneyfication" of society.

Monetary relations have penetrated into every nook and cranny of the world and into almost every aspect of social, even private life.

Individual capitalists, in short, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism.

There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.