“Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction.” AmericaCitiesBuildingAdvantageDistanceHeightShopsAbstractionUglinessAmerican Cities Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“Yes, Manila had its slums; one saw them on the drive from the airport: vast districts of men in dirty white undershirts lounging idly in front of auto-repair shops - like a poorer version of the 1950s America depicted in such films as Grease.” MenAmericaFilmWhiteSawsFrontsVersionsDirtyShopsAirportsSlumsGreaseManilaLounging Book:The Reluctant Fundamentalist Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist