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Featured Quote: John May



A bypass road from Beit Jala, Bethlehem to Gilo Tantur.


Checkpoint 300, from Bethlehem to Jerusalem.

"Planning is the method by which modern violence is done; clean, unspoken, 'just' violence.  It is less an act of design than an act of war, less cooperation than conquest, less color and light than sound and fury."

John May, from Verb Crisis, 2008

This is part of a collection of quotes related to cities. They don't necessarily reflect our views, just things that may be interesting. Please feel welcome to add others.

Credits: Images of bypass road and checkpoint 300 from Benjamin Leclair-Paquet, a resident of Decolonizing Architecture.