Urban Development Mugs

Gentrifiers of Catan

'Phase Two : More of the same'

"We've decided to add forty floors."

"It's a mixed-use facility: retail space, low-rent housing, luxury apartments, and an area set aside for making steel."

"We'll take it."

"I can remember when this was all farmland."

Sowing the seeds of property

A corner market is taken over by suburban sprawl.

Simplified Map of London.

"Sure, it will be an eyesore, but after we build a lot of them, it'll fit right in!"

"Great for worship then! Great for retail now!"

It was hard to put a price on progress. Real hard without a calculator.

What Population Problem?

Road work ahead - Be prepared to stop.

Progress.

US Infrastructure Deteriorating

Industry and environment

Building an inferiority complex - debate over land use.

"This city is going to hell! That used to be a parking lot."

Real Estate Depression

Country Living . . . Coming Soon: More City.

Pardon our dust as we continue to remodel every square inch of planet Earth!

'Wait a minute! Aren't you the chap who refused planning permission on the St., Mary's church extension?'

Garden Shop/New Homes Coming Soon!

A house being demolished in order to make way for a road widening scheme, with the occupants being evicted.

'Housing shortage, what housing shortage?'

'There goes the neigborhood.'

"We finally reached net zero emissions."

'They had the idea to fix the roads by killing mass transits.'

When this is buildings we can say we remember when all this was fields.

Urban Expansion

'We would like an unspoiled paradise, but with lots of shops.'

'Yes, we have a very diversified economy around here.'

Men Working Since 1931

"Have they no shame?"