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  Cities trade with suburbs - slums for luxury housing

  Jeffrey Hill | Wed, Mar 19th, 2008 | Category: Report | Tags: jeffrey hill, crime, downtown, building, suburbs, foreclosure, growth, mortgage, metro, foreclosures, atlantic, luxury, christopher leinberger, populuxe, migration, the new slum | 1

  Christopher Leinberger explores “The Next Slum” in this thought-provoking article on Atlantic.com

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  Raygun Gothic and Populuxe Culture: The Next American City, Today!

  Jeffrey Hill | Mon, Jan 14th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: jeffrey hill, 1960s, populuxe, raygun gothic, googie, the jetsons, theme building, justin long, station wagon | 0

  You wanna know who lives 20,000 miles below The Jetsons? Communists.

  
  Not really, but it’s a fair guess. Conceptual artists in the Cuban Missile Crisis days had to contribute some sort of vision for the future of humanity. Hiding under drafting tables in a dark Hanna-Barbera sweatbox, grinding out another air raid drill, cursing at Jack Kennedy… heck, it would make anyone want to live in the stratosphere with a talking dog. Since there’s no official backstory to The Jetsons, it leaves…

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