Notes

(Opening quote: Berman, Marshall. All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity. New York: Penguin Books, 1988, p. 307.)

1. Berman, p. 288.
   
2. Johns, Professor Michael. Lecture, 21 October 1993.
   
3. Berman, p. 307.
   
4. Quoted in Berman, p. 302.
   
5. This sentence is a re-working of something Professor Michael Johns said. Lecture, 26 October 1993.
   
6. Johns. Lecture, 9 November 1993.
   
7. Davis, Mike. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. New York: Vintage Books, 1990, p. 231.
   
8. ibid., p. 226.
   
9. Johns. Lecture, 23 November 1993.
   
10. Berman, p. 309.
    
11. ibid., p. 293.
    

This paper was written while I was a student at the University of California, Berkeley, for Professor Michael Johns’ “Economy and Culture of the Western City” class, Fall 1993.

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