"People who can't afford to live here should move someplace else."
Local politicians and business interests would like to turn their so-called "International City" into what could be more accurately described as a "Multinational City", a city dominated by multinational corporations.
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There's a war going on ... This war amounts to one big eviction notice for the elderly, the diabled, for people on fixed incomes, for minorities, for underpaid and unemployed working people of all races. ... ridding the city of individuals and families who don't have a lot of money to spend. Instead, higher-income customers are being invited to frolic in a new landscape of ... shopping malls, condominiums, ... This new landscape is evidence of a city economy geared to profits rather than human needs.
Allan Sekula (1979)
Ed. Brian Wallis, If you lived here : The City in Art, Theory, and Social Activism - A Project by Martha Rosler (Seattle: Bay Press, 1991), pp.146-47.
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