The Devil is in the Retail
The privatization of public space, and what to do about it.
‘The city has become a visually-branded backdrop to retail in which life is not lived but product is consumed. The Venezuelan architect Alfredo Brillembourg, who has been responsible for a number of innovative interventions in the Caracas favelas, eloquently addresses the problem as the need to “move from a city of seeing to a city of being”.’
