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What does it mean?
A critique of how urban decay and consumerism have replaced the working class.
In plain terms
Cities are dirty and poor people are gone, replaced by brands and drugs.
What can you take from it?
Economic shifts erase traditional communities.

Where it applies

  • economic analysis
  • community history

Putting it to work

  • critiquing policy
  • documenting change

Questions to consider

  • Where did the workers go?
  • What defines a city?

Another view

The tone is cynical and generalized.

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