"Capitalism and neo-capitalism have produced an abstract space
that is a reflection of the world of business on both a national
and international level, as well as the power of money and the
'politique' of the state. This abstract space depends on vast
networks of banks, businesses, and great centres of production.
There is also the spatial intervention of highways, airports, and
information networks. In this space, the cradle of accumulation,
the place of richness, the subject of history, the centre of
historical space, in other words, the city, has exploded."
--- Henri Lefebvre

"Urbanism is capitalism's seizure of the natural and human environment;
developing logically into absolute domination,
capitalism can and must now remake the totality
of space into its own setting."
--- Guy Debord

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