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ix My first expression of thanks goes to Stefano Bloch, without whose assistance chapter 9 could not have been written. Stefano is the source for figures 8 to 12, three of which are painted by the mural artist Mear One and are included with his permission. Special thanks also to Eugene Turner and James Allen, Department of Geography, California State University– Northridge, for preparing on short notice maps 1 to 4. Photo-artist Antonis Ricos, my close friend, helped prepare figures 2 to 6 and map 12, which were published originally in Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Realand -Imagined Places (Blackwell Publishers, 1996). Coordinating the illustrative material, preparing it all for publication, and redrawing figure 7 entirely was Sean Combs, not the rap star but my son-in-law and father of the exceedingly delightful Addison. Thanks, Sean. Chapters 1 to 8 draw to different degrees on my previously published work. All the major sources are identified for each chapter in appendix 1. Worth mentioning in particular are maps 5 to 11, which are reproduced from Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory, published by Verso Press in 1989 and republished in their Radical Thinkers series in 2011. Sections of chapter 3 are taken directly from “Inside Exopolis: Everyday Life in the Postmodern World,” chapter 8 in Thirdspace. I would also like to thank University of Minnesota Press for adaptations from Seeking Spatial Justice (2010) in chapter 8, and University of California Press for the use of map 13 from the introduction to The City, coauthored by Allen Scott and Edward W. Soja. Thanks must go to my coauthors: Goetz Wolff, Rebecca Morales, Allen Scott, and Juan Miguel Kanai. I completed the first draft of this book while taking advantage of the excellent facilities of the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal as a A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S x • A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S Mellon Senior Research Fellow from July 2 to August 10, 2012. My thanks to the Mellon Foundation, and to Phyllis Lambert (Founding Director) and Mirko Zardini (Director and Chief Curator) of the CCA. Helpful from the start and throughout my stay in Montreal was Alexis Sornin, Head of the Study Centre. Thanks also to Catherine Bella, who served as my research assistant. Learning about local and regional politics in Montreal added significantly to the last three chapters. ...

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