IVIV (2) urban development

[Doug Millison]

I don't have my finger on it but in GR there's a passage about the  
pattern of destruction in London, doesn't it hit the poor  
neighborhoods disproportionately, something like that.

Mark the K:

> either way, the turf is blitzed, destroyed. So, very associatively  
> kin, I think.
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> I used "urban development" as a euphemism here for tearing up the  
> ground, as some protested at the time. And, as an analogue for  
> tearing up LA.

One of my favorite cartoons of all time appeared in Playboy, probably  
in the '70s, showing some angular young designer/kingmaker elites  
examining a scale model of some proposed urban landscape, one says "In  
the city of the future, shouldn't the ghetto be located a little  
farther from the financial district?" or something like that.

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>> Mark the K:
>>> Here it is a smack at "urban development", ala Robert
>> Moses
>>> and whoever. whatever in LA, embodied in Wolfmann.
>> [Chap 2]

>> Doug:
>> Recalls to my mind right now, a process which is rather the
>> opposite of "urban development" at work as the rockets fall
>> on London in GR.
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