Scott F quoted Dead Cities by Mike Davis
For the late great Mike Davis, the ravaging of the climate by capital—and his prescient …
Here [in the United States] urban dereliction has become the moral and natural historical equivalent of war. In 1940-41, the Heinkel and Junkers bombers of the Luftwaffe destroyed 350,000 dwellings [sic] units and unhoused a million Londoners. In the 1970s, an equally savage "blitz" of landlord disinvestment, bank redlining, and federal "benign neglect" led to the destruction of 294,000 housing units in New York City alone.
— Dead Cities by Mike Davis (Page 386)
one of many holy-shit moments in this book (in this case, an aside in an essay about how bomb sites can play host to a surprising diversity of plant and insect species).