I enjoyed the following two quotes from Jane Jacobs Revisited:
“A metropolitan economy, if it is working well, is constantly transforming many poor people into middle-class people, many illiterates into skilled people, many greenhorns into competent citizens…. Cities don’t lure the middle class. They create it.”“There is no point in pretending that economic development is in everyone’s interest…. Economic development, no matter when or where it occurs, is profoundly subversive of the status quo.”