The “city is the star” cliche aptly applied to The Wire
I’ve spent a busy Friday afternoon preparing to move to Delaware, which is only an hour’s drive from Baltimore, a city I hope to visit several times (if only to see Camden Yards). Last month Steve Rose of The Guardian’s architecture bureau argued that, for all the gritty acting and tangled storylines, the built environment of Baltimore plays the most important role.
The author quotes Bodie Broadus, who rails against modernism in the third season, as a 1960s era housing project is demolished:
“They gonna tear this building down and they’re gonna build some new shit - but people? They don’t give a fuck about people.”
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