New post for subscribers - dining in wooden huts, how the pandemic has exacerbated what calls "fourth world" conditions, and the ongoing rise of the favela chic aesthetic
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It’s weird how favelas can’t be spatially segregated in the 4th world. They kinda intertwingle. Here in LA, there’s skid row of course, but there’s also random half-blocks here and there colonized by the homeless. Visually it’s like metastasizing blight.
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yeah its fascinating - seems like it might have something to do with suburbanization patterns - no big empty spaces to settle on the edge of town so have to find the interstitial spaces within the city (need to think about that more)
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