The Grouch Reads

recommended reading:

David Harvey on the Right to the City

http://www.newleftreview.org/?view=2740

I've spent a good part of my life trying to escape the cultural wilderness of the American suburb----and now I am dying from it in EL Paso, Texas.

Harvey argues that there is nothing inevitable about this form of life, and spends some time detailing how it came to be--and, especially, who most profits from it.