Steven Flusty is Lecturer of Geography and Research Associate and Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Southern California Studies Center at the University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles.

• Introduction I: From the World to the City to the Street, and Back Again 1: The World Defined 2: The World in the City 3: The World on the Street II: Hard City, Soft Planet 4: The City Hardens 5: Planet Softeners 6: Miscege-Nation III: The Clash of Globalizations 7: The Limits of Coca-Colonization 8: De-Coca-Colonization Classic Conclusion Bibliography

"Flusty has distinguished himself in the past a shrewd, original, and generative analyst of culture and space...this promises to be engaging, accessible, and widely read." -- George Lipsitz, University of California, San Diego