Shopping, at the end of the 20th Century, is....
Like cinema and the automobile, a symbol of the modern world, but cities have always been markets - places of exchange, trade, and barter.

"The arcades that in the nineteenth century housed the first consumer dream worlds appeared in the twentieth as commodity graveyards, containing the refuse of a discarded past."
              - Buck-Morss, p 39

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!"
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: "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

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