Will Steacy

Down These Mean Streets, Crips Atlantic City, 2008

"America has turned its back on cities as years of neglect have left crumbling neighborhoods with no local economy...By addressing the loss and despair that prevail in our urban communities my aim is to reveal a modern day portrait of the American inner city as problems and issues cannot be solved if they are not first identified."

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The Innovator of the Shopping Mall, Victor Gruen, 1948

It is our belief that there is much need for actual shopping centers–market places that are also centers of community and cultural activity. We are convinced that the real shopping center will be the most profitable type of chain store location yet developed, for the simple reason that it will include features to induce people to drive considerable distances to enjoy its advantages.

-Victor Gruen, 1948

"We should not be content to say that power has a need for such-and-such a discovery, such-and-such a form of knowledge, but we should add that the exercise of power itself creates and causes to emerge new objects of knowledge and accumulates new bodies of information. One can understand nothing about economic science if one does not know how power and economic power are exercised in everyday life."

-Michel Foucault