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New York:
"New York is a continual evolutionary process of evacuations, demolitions, removals, temporarily vacant lots, new installations and repeat. This process is identical in principle to the annual rotation of crops in farm acreage-- plowing, planting the new seed, harvesting, plowing under, and putting in another type of crop…
“Most people think of the building operations blocking New York’s streets as temporary annoyances, soon to disappear in a static peace. They still think of permanence as normal, a hangover from the Newtonian view of the Universe. But those who have lived in and with New York since the beginning of the century have literally experienced living with Einsteinian relativity.”
(Original citation & context at New York City, (1)(2), 1964)
- RBF quoted by Alvin Toffler in FUTURE SHOCK, p.51, 1970
