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CIVIC CENTER
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GUM, MOSCOW
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FARMER'S MARKET
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Shopping, at the end of
the 20th Century, is....
Ellen
Ullman: "Just what goes into shopping, and makes it satisfying?
I need to see it, touch it, smell it, so it's a physical experience, and
part of the city experience. Your own desire is embedded in a social desire,
the notion of value is social!" : "I like the Civic Center Farmer's Market because you can get great produce here - these guys have their own rose garden, and I like getting hit in the shins and jostling with lots of different shoppers. Basically there's an intensity of life and a mingling of people brought together by food. and It's not like being in the supermarket!" - Rebecca Solnit, Author of Wanderlust : A history of walking MORE Rebecca Solnit (coming soon) |