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itself a bricolage of raw street knowledge and confected “street dreams,”

Whether a prophecy of doom or emancipation, the clash seems the cultural moment writ large

a palimpsest in which a certain dream of ease and affluence was painting itself over a complicated tableau of working-­class struggle, certain groups’ stories held up as emblematic

Had you asked me then why I chose this place over other metropolises, other places that might ensorcell a restless, bored, and keenly adventurous teenager

The ineffable numen of a place can somehow define our essence.