General J. Frederick Thorlin,Trinity Test Obelisk, White Sands, NM, 1965
You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe. When it knocked down our buildings, it didn't replace them with anything more offensive than rubble.
Prince Charles, "On London's Paternoster Square vs. Paris' Centre Pompidou," 1987 (via guardian)
The Walled City of Kowloon has no visible wall around it, but it is as clearly defined as if there were one made of hard, high steel. It is instantly sensed by the congested open market that runs along the street in front of the row of dark run-down flats—shacks haphazardly perched on top of one another giving the impression that at any moment the entire blighted complex will collapse under its own weight, leaving nothing but rubble where elevated rubble had stood.