Justice
The Junk Food Attitude Toward Place
We consume these places without thinking, like potato chips in front of the television, and America is full of them.
What, exactly, makes a place?
I’ve been traveling the last few days around South Florida, taking in the huge variety it has to offer: the manicured, historic charm of Coral Gables; the squalor of inner-city Miami; that same city’s flourishing Wynwood arts district; the impenetrable mangrove swamps of the Upper Keys; the shouting billboards of Route 1; the tangle of freeways between Miami and Fort Lauderdale; the touristy streets of downtown Delray Beach; the anonymous expanses of countless strip mall parking lots.