Paramount Studios or Disneyland or Universal City were, and are vast reservoirs of mobile city sets for any age or culture. These are “disposable cities” such as we associate with world fairs and Expo since 1851 and the Crystal Palace. It is typical of the 19th century mind of the current [city] “planners” that they should consider the mobility problem in terms of the obsolete car, and truck and train. In the mobster phrase of the 20’s, they have chosen us as eligible for the “cement kimono” treatment.
Letter to the Editor, Globe and Mail, March 12, 1970 [LAC]
Year: 1970
Chapters:
Programming the Environment | Religion
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Compiled by William Kuhns
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