Because it robs everything from another place the city causes trouble for others, and trashes the Earth is the process.
"Down-with-the-Cities"
Nakashima, Tadashi
A tall, gaunt woman, with pale face, and thinly clad in a worn and much-patched calico gown, and with a pair of "trashes" upon her stockingless feet, sat on the step of the cottage nearest the lane.
"Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine"
Edwin Waugh