“The middle class has finally come downtown but only to bring suburbia with them. The hipsters think they’re living in the real thing, but this is purely faux urbanism, a residential mall. Downtown is not the heart of the city, it’s a luxury lifestyle pod for the same people who claim Silverlake is the ‘Eastside’ or that Venice is still bohemian.” — boomcalifornia
Jennifer Wolch and Dana Cuff track down elusive writer Mike Davis for Boom California.
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A previous conversation with Mike Davis for Archinect, "Meeting Mike Davis"
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Woah, he patched things up with Dirty Gehry and contributed to the Disney Concert Hall! That's how leftist rabble rousing should work.
Love the (rarer these days) leftist urban thinkers. They always have a myopic view, but it's much needed humanism. Now he needs to talk with the architects of stacked wine boxes and private gardens for the wealthy....
I copied this interview into a PDF and had adobe read it out loud to me. Excellent content, but in my case the delivery was a bit bizarre! Worth your time to read it.
I like this guy.
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