MVRDV, Costa Iberica: Upbeat to the Leisure City (Actar, 2000.10.01), p. 188.
(The city is Benidorm, "the most effective mass-tourism machine in Spain.")


MVRDV, Costa Iberica: Upbeat to the Leisure City (Actar, 2000.10.01), p. 211.
("The Elderly Rock").

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Found what may be the most sarcastic (but also the most critical) passage within the "ugly and ordinary" texts of Learning from Las Vegas:

"The Boston City Hall and its urban complex are the archetype of enlightened urban renewal. The profusion of symbolic forms, which recall the extravagances of the General Grant period, and the revival of the medieval piazza and its palazzo pubblico are in the end a bore. It is too architectural. A conventional loft would accomodate a bureaucracy better, perhaps with a blinking sign on top saying I AM A MONUMENT."