Gowanus: Brooklyn’s Curious Canal
Neuropolis: Our relationship with cities from Mumbai to Manhattan. As our cities change, they inspire a change in us: "A new generation of explorers, cyclists and psychogeographers are remapping urban landscapes through non-places. In this expanding urban maze, waymarks — as ever — are key to community cohesion ." Cities are described as "an immens... See more
Weidenfeld & Nicolson • You Are Here: A Brief Guide to the World
What has happened to the Medlwc? Does it just empty into this basin now, becoming a canal, losing all sense of itself as a wild thing that flows down from the hills? Kay hates it, the way people treat the world. People used to worship rivers. Now they brick them in, they make the water bend to their own will. They play at being gods themselves.
Thomas D. Lee • Perilous Times
The dynamic echoes social and cultural geographer Tim Edensor’s idea of ruins as fluid spaces, where limits on material curiosity and imagination are let go, and exploration of alternative futures can thrive.
Joanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity
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