Carpooling in Mexico City
Michael T. Martin
Conversations with the contemporary city
If our history is a history of forgetting how to remember the past…then the city of Detroit is the engine of our conflicted deliverance. It’s the machinery we’ve used for particular acts of forgetting, each connected to the place and time where the forgetting got done.
The Forgetting Machine via Design Observer
In exchange for struggling in the crowded city, the poorest artist can be enriched by the ideas circulating for free.
from “Art and Urban Density” by James Panero
Birds living in cities sing at a higher pitch to reduce the impact of echoes from surrounding buildings
Urban birds sing at higher pitch - Telegraph
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Theoretical cities
If post-modern cities are defined by their decentralization, privatization, and generalized atomization of community, then where are we now? Is the paradigm on the cusp of shifting?
The now-hip focus on “the local,” a focus on community-building and engagement, a reassertion of centralization (downtown revival and investment,) and a push toward public-private partnerships to accomplish development all point to a new mode of thought that is not necessarily at odds with postmodernism but rather a remix of it, the ideals of modernity, and something else entirely different.
New York in the 1970’s. Inspired by the new book “Love Goes To Buildings On Fire: Five Years In New York That Changed Music Forever”
These are public spaces. Spaces for gathering, leisure, meeting and interacting – these spaces should be the reason we live in cities. Where the state and the interests of owners have made them inaccessible, exclusive or dangerous, it is up to us to make sure that they are safe, inclusive and just.
To the Occupy movement – the occupiers of Tahrir Square are with you | Comrades from Cairo via The Guardian
There is no difference between me and these streets, save they being streets and I a soul, which perhaps is irrelevant when we consider the essence of things.
Fernando Pessoa
