tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453020696037086897.post5076171356315043821..comments2024-02-23T00:34:54.972-08:00Comments on Wandering the Dream Space: Le Corbusier's City of TomorrowFrangipanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05419535400884652590noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453020696037086897.post-55877418088457768402011-01-29T15:14:15.404-08:002011-01-29T15:14:15.404-08:00Thank you for all of the interesting comments, you...Thank you for all of the interesting comments, you have given me a lot to think about, a lot of good things to think about. I am writing 2 dissertations but this one is about women writing about walking in the city of London after the first world war.Frangipanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05419535400884652590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453020696037086897.post-4609207277117450702011-01-29T14:10:37.913-08:002011-01-29T14:10:37.913-08:00Architecture is basically a container of something...Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.<br /><br /><br /><br />Yoshio Taniguchihttp://jacquelinewaechter.blogspot.com/https://www.blogger.com/profile/11639481893547901848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453020696037086897.post-78400611754546200512011-01-29T13:31:48.315-08:002011-01-29T13:31:48.315-08:00Lewis Mumford gravely noted that the Necropolis, t...Lewis Mumford gravely noted that the Necropolis, the “final cemetery” awaited each civilization (City in History. 7). When technology, rent, and the overall costs and pressures of life in an urban environment become out of proportion then society is destined to fall. This happened in Egypt, Rome, Greece, China...In New York the "affordable housing" issue is so abstract and the reality is that these new affordable high rise communities are meant to push the longstanding residents of most historic communities (Williamsburg, Lower East Side, Greenpoint, Harlem, ect..) further out to less desirable locations. The city is no longer a desirable place to make a start for young artists, it is a playground for the rich. This misfortune gained great momentum mid-century when Robert Moses, who was a fan of Corbusier, created "projects" on the West and East sides of New York. Good post, what is your thesis on?Adam I Zuckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18077102573564433094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453020696037086897.post-73195632750829798552011-01-28T18:37:12.661-08:002011-01-28T18:37:12.661-08:00Good take on cities...now people even flee the cor...Good take on cities...now people even flee the core...then the burbs...then beyond.Brother Olliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07506492407482879487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453020696037086897.post-19756988026242849122011-01-28T17:38:34.931-08:002011-01-28T17:38:34.931-08:00interestinginterestingMister Sharafhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07037301918605272211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453020696037086897.post-2636749278294906602011-01-28T08:00:54.059-08:002011-01-28T08:00:54.059-08:00"Corbu...city...just another machine...thwart..."Corbu...city...just another machine...thwart souls...green space...women walk...human emotion..." <br /><br />Have you read Alice Notley's The Descent of Alette?<br /><br />"One day, I awoke" "& found myself on" "a subway, endlessly" "I didn't know" "how I'd arrived there or" "who I was" "exactly" <br /><br />Alice calls it a female epic and that it is...<br /><br />So then Alette finds herself in this labyrinth already mapping emotion in some sort of opposition to, maybe more quandary over machine. Machine itself really a language (vocabulary, grammar, syntax) (towers of Babel): PR and its mass logic the skyscrapers of a mind now taken over by material reductionist isolationist palaver such that we no longer have access to the very creative force of each of our vocalization. Alice here attempts to unleash life right in the "subway" or "tube" of this machine. I think you might enjoy it.<br /><br />Biology may help us free language and vision from the mechanistic physics. Will it though help us become more osmotic, permeable in our experience of our perceptive process, relationship, and interdependence: this living?<br /><br />Here's to building a language world co-emergent with life. <br /><br />A quickly packed thought or two in response: Thank you for thinking.John Bailes, Kotatsu Rokohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02663251617553426098noreply@blogger.com