Context There is no venue for a “concentrated” experience of urban fellowship as the one provided by the system of public transportation that places everyone in the same wagon so to speak! From Paris to London and New York and from Daumier’s famous sketch of early Paris omnibus riders characters, to Davidson’s photographs of the …
A reminder, and an introduction. The development of an outdoor public market in a northern city may seem counter intuitive. Yet the Swedish town of Lund, for instance, has one in the format of an indoor four-season venue adjacent to a public open space given periodically to the holding of a seasonal open-air market, when …
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A reminder The balcony’s specific agency of urban sociability resides in the fact that it acts both as a loge from which street life could be looked at, and as a stage upon which some private activities could be set as part of street life. The rest is a question of social attitude and physical …
What is a window for? Common sense and a bit of research will tell you that a window allows air and sunshine in a room, or any type of interior space, and that as such it insures, minimally, their practical and hygienic occupation. Because of that, building codes will usually specify the minimum dimensions of …
With eyes all around You have seen others do it… You have done it yourself… You know the irresistible attraction to look at oneself in the mirror-like windows of parked cars or of certain shop windows when it is darker inside than outside. I have done it often enough to become aware of the fact …
Context There are but two main sets of preoccupations through which one usually filters the various environmental situations we face ordinarily while going about our activities with others in the city, and these are a sense of security and efficiency. To satisfy these preoccupations we need to know where and in whose place it is …
Introduction What did Gertrude Stein mean when she said: “The trouble with Oakland is that when you get there, there isn’t any there there.”? What Gertrude Stein meant, I think, was that the city of Oakland as a whole had no features to make it feel, globally, like a distinct place; she could also have …
Why she loves the unchanging relentless LA-ness of the city.
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