This reformist vision of public space – as the emollient of class struggle, if not the bedrock of the American polis – is now as obsolete as Keynesian nostrums of full employment

Redeveloped with public tax increments under the aegis of the powerful and largely unaccountable Community Redevelopment Agency

the new financial district is best conceived as a single, demonically self-referential hyper-structure, a Miesian skyscape raised to dementia

pure heteroglossia could flourish: that is to say, where Chinatown punks, Glendale skinheads, Boyle Heights lowriders, Valley girls, Marina designer couples, Slauson rappers, Skid Row homeless and gawkers from Des Moines