"Urbanism — “city planning” — is capitalism’s method for taking over the natural and
human environment. Following its logical development toward total domination, capitalism now
can and must refashion the totality of space into
its own particular decor.
...
While all the technical forces of capitalism contribute toward various forms of separation,
urbanism provides the material foundation for those forces and prepares the ground for their
deployment. It is the very
technology of separation."

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Guy Debord / Society of the Spectacle - 1967