“In the big city, individuality and difference were sought only if they pertained to a marketing strategy.”

Sept. 3, 2014 | First, We Make the Beast Beautiful.

Notes to Self are longer journal entries from Seven Yrs Ago. I was 21 late 2014.

"In a landscape where nothing officially exists (otherwise it would not be ‘desert’), absolutely anything becomes thinkable, and may consequently happen.” — Reyner Banham, Scenes in America Deserta

“Las Vegas is sort of like how God would do it if he had money.” — Steve Wynn, LV property developer

*flâneur—a man of leisure, idler, urban explorer, connoisseur of the street

“In the big city, individuality and difference were sought only if they pertained to a marketing strategy.” — AlSayyad, Cinematic Urbanism