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Dan Green: Cities in Crisis: 1930s-1950s
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Thursday, February 17, 2011. Lewis Mumford is a historian and philosopher born in 1895 in Queens, NY. When he was 44 years old he created a film called "The City". A narrator's voice is heard, explaining the beauty of this "new" type of life. I would like to highlight some of things he says and offer my comments on them. Just watch us grow, the scales wont hold us soon.". I found this to be ironic due to increasing obesity in America. A little gossip, or a friendly hand is good for the complexion". This ...
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Dan Green: Cities in Crisis: Master Builders
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Monday, February 21, 2011. Part 2 - Chapter 8: The Need for Mixed Primary Uses. S "Long Exposure" series. The Lower Manhattan Waterfront. Jacobs theorizes that if a district is calculated and specialized for one function will be unable to provide what is necessary if it is confined to that one function. This is due to the fact that the district will only be used during specific times and because of its lack of diversity, at all other times will be empty. Jacobs talks about the Central Business District (...
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Dan Green: Cities in Crisis: The Navigators
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Saturday, February 5, 2011. While thinking about the flaneur I realized that what is most interesting about the flaneur is not the city they exhibit, but the flaneur themselves. It seems that Poe too found the flaneur themselves to be interesting. Who are the flaneurs what does their life consist of. I find myself asking this question about a lot of people i see on the street. wondering, "what do they do at night? Or "what does their apartment look like? Perhaps it is our natural inclination to be voyeur...
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Cities In Crisis: Urbanization in China
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Sunday, April 10, 2011. Sorry this is a little late! I went to photograph the 8k this morning and was unable to get back to my apartment for awhile because the race cut right in front of it.*. Through this week's materials, the MCA's Urban China: Informal Cities. The MoCP's Reversed Images: Representations of Shanghai and Its Contemporary Material Culture. Excerpts from Contemporary Chinese Art. The MCA's "brochure" on Urban China: Informal Cities. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Check out my website:.
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Dan Green: Cities in Crisis: January 2011
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Sunday, January 30, 2011. Chicago, Illinois. The world's most badass city. The Image of the City" by Kevin Lynch. North, Damen, and Milwaukee streets (aka "6 corners") is a node in Wicker Park. Landmarks are physical objects which denote an important area. They can be used as navigational tools to keep us from becoming lost. This pillar in Logan Square is a landmark. Walking in the City" by Michael de Certeau. Perhaps I am jaded. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Crips and Bloods: Made in America.
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Cities In Crisis: Performance and Intervention 2
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Sunday, April 3, 2011. Performance and Intervention 2. Karen Jones's The Urban Event: Spectacle, Resistance, and Hegemony. And Lydia Yee's Two-Way Street. Discuss public art movements and how photography fits into ideas, events, and art in the streets. Karen Jones explores the different aspects of public, city art in her The Urban Event: Spectacle, Resistance, and Hegemony. Nikki S. Lee, #4 from the Yuppie Project. Nikki S. Lee, #7 from the Skateboarders Project. And some, such as Alys's Instantaneas.
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Cities In Crisis: March 2011
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Sunday, March 27, 2011. Frazer Ward's Shifting Ground: Street Art of the 1960s and '70s. And Lytle Shaw's The Powers of Removal: Interventions in the Name of the City. Explore the ideas of the city street, the art that simultaneously encompasses and is encompassed by the street, and the power of the public person. This idea in question is, again, this unclear line between how public space, like a street, can be used and is seen. Is it public? VALIE EXPORT, Touch Cinema. Lytle Shaw approaches the idea of ...
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Cities in Crisis: jane jacobs
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Friday, February 18, 2011. Demolition of Cabrini Green). Security footage of a disturbance at Cabrini Green). Revolt of the Urbs. In the end though- I feel the park being left alone is a positive thing. Too often do people hustle and rush to get to work, back home, here and there- but rarely do we slow down and enjoy things. Jane Jacobs introduction to. The Death and Life of Great American Cities,. 8220;The silliest conception of salvage is to build a duplicate of the first failure and move the people fr...
