Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: 1/14/10: Dumb asphalt suburbs end at towering mountains.

Jacob Lawrence, This is harlem (1943) — Jacob Lawrence, *This is Harlem* (1943)

January 14, 2010:

Dumb asphalt suburbs end at towering mountains. Dream landscape, too improbable to be real, betrayed by the ugliness of the city, too homely to be dream. A wish-fulfillment of land speculators and developers and big box retailers.