The Mirage Factory
The new American cities trade in information, entertainment, tourism, software, finance. They are abstract.
Rebecca Solnit • The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness
Los Angeles: was an exercise in horror vacui. Los Angeles: was algae from the future. Los Angeles: ate at the dream side of my mind.
Rosecrans Baldwin • Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Robert M. Fogelson’s The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850–1930,