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the films of Patrick Keiller.
Merlin Coverley • Psychogeography
A Pattern Language: A user's guide to the seminal architectural handbook
gsd.harvard.edu
If Moses refused to accept ideas from public, experts or aides—from, in general, anyone at all—the source of his ideas, his concept of public works for New York City, could be only his own mind. The mind was brilliant, but even a brilliant mind is only as good as the material—the input—fed into it.
Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
For Lynch, ideas come from somewhere outside us, and our job is to tune into their channels. The imagination is a diving inward. Artistic invention is a matter of staying in the depths until you encounter something down there. It might be beautiful, or frightening, or absurd; but it comes to you. You... See more
Zettels June 2025
Desire Paths | Are.na
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the concept of a city-state implies a core and a periphery, and L.A. has multiple cores and is all periphery.
Rosecrans Baldwin • Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Joseph Campbell wrote, “If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path.”
Brené Brown • Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
The building of a public work shapes a city perhaps more permanently than any other action of government. Large-scale public works shape a city for generations. Some public works—most notably the great bridges and highways that open new areas to development and insure that these areas will be developed on the low-density pattern fostered by
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