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Unless we in the West can wrench ourselves free of today’s dominant ideology in which the quality of life is but a by-product of the momenta set up by technological growth and business expansion, our civilization will begin to fall apart before the year 2000. The sort of life that is emerging in response to these powerful agents of perpetual change is one fraught with intolerable disamenities and, for most people, with mounting frustrations and tensions.
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© 1972 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Mishan, E.J. (1972). Thinking of the Future. In: Fears and Hopes for European Urbanization. Plan Europe 2000, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2768-7_5
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