He likes it "dirty and gritty." Edit: "dirty and gritty" being a typically Eurocentric way of referring to, I'm assuming, things like (as you mention) pollution

He likes it "dirty and gritty." Edit: "dirty and gritty" being a typically Eurocentric way of referring to, I'm assuming, things like (as you mention) pollution, traffic, destruction of architectural history, etc. Arable land for colonization.