The Consuming Paradox: A New Research Agenda for Urban Consumption

Abstract

One building casts a broader shadow, darkens more with its penumbra, than any other. It rises at the city ’ s heart, immense and squat and square. Visible for miles around, it would seem to be the sole rea-son for which the houses and tower blocks and factories and warehouses around it exist The building has seven ¯ oors, and each ¯ oor is fourteen metres high. Its sides are just over two and a half kilometres long, so that it sits on seven million hectares of land. With its bare brick ¯ anks it looks like something that weighs heavy on the planet, like something that has been pounded in with God ’ s own sledgeham-

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