Selling Out The City

Jane Holtz Kay, the author of Asphalt Nation, shows how the privatization of public space results in the city selling out step by step, kiosk by kiosk.

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July 15, 2003, 7:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"An onslaught of kiosks, toilets, shelters, and information signs, plastered with blatant billboards, are turning the city streets into an advertisers alley...dozens of Boston's premier architectural and historic sites are on the auction block...This is how the city slides. Not with a bang, but inch by inch, row by row."

Thanks to Jane Holtz Kay

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