The city experience
"let's embrace these bulging urban brains, these massed flowerings of opportunity and potential. The frontiers of exploration have spread from deserts, forests and mountain ranges to include centres of human population whose increasing scale demands new research, new ideas, new policies; fresh symbolism . Urban jungles are greener than we think. Th... See more
Weidenfeld & Nicolson • You Are Here: A Brief Guide to the World
The Five Senses of Gentrification
makinganeighborhood.substack.com
Our experience of living in the city, our understanding of why things are the way they are, or why things might be different in the future, no longer track neatly onto land use patterns or zoning regulations. We still lead our everyday flesh-and-blood lives, interacting with a few people and places, constrained by the physical limits of time and sp... See more
Neither Here Nor There - Urban Omnibus
A city is where all dangers come together for human beings, where everything happens to human beings. I use “city” in a fairly metaphorical sense. A city is where culture comes together and flowers. A pueblo is a city.
Ursula K. Le Guin • Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series)
courses. Mais Paris était une très vieille ville et nous étions jeunes et rien n’y était simple, ni même la pauvreté, ni la richesse soudaine, ni le clair de lune, ni le bien, ni le mal, ni le souffle d’un être endormi à vos côtés dans le clair de lune.
Marc Saporta • Paris est une fête (French Edition)
Cities, like the residents that call them home, tend to run on distinct circadian rhythms; internal, collective clocks that dictate when the streets and town squares come alive, peaking with movement and activity, and when they eventually begin to quiet down, the bars, cafes and clubs emptying.
Having temporarily relocated from Berlin to Sydney, I’v... See more
Having temporarily relocated from Berlin to Sydney, I’v... See more
Alexi Gunner • Idle Gaze 062: Dawn Chorus / Dusk Chorus
Now, I wonder: what does gentrification look, smell, taste, feel, and sound like? What are the larger implications that accompany these sensory shifts? I want to understand with my whole body, not just with my mind, how increased development and an influx of affluence in this neighborhood shapes peoples’ everyday lived experiences of their ho
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The city experience
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