My brain on blog.
It is no longer possible to regard the city as purely an
artifact, or a political entity, or a configuration of population
densities. All of these are outmoded constructs
that recall a time when one could trace a sharp dividing
line between town and countryside, rural and urban man.
From a sociological and, indeed, an economic standpoint,
what is properly urban and properly rural can no longer
be distinguished.
— The Urban Field
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house
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― Audre Lorde
This also happens to be my problem with urban design?
The world has literally been made, domesticated, and ordered by drawing lines, distinctions taxonomies and hierarchies: Europe and its others., West and non-west, or people with history and people without history. Through their gaze, gridding and architectures the sciences have spatialized and produced the world we inhabit. And indeed, perhaps the crucial issue: maps provide the very conditions of possibility for the worlds we inhabit and the subjects we become.
— Pickles. The history of Spaces. This dude is my jam!
Jer Thorp’s Modern Day John Snow Map..
the drawing of lines is a fundatmentally geographical and spatial act in which identities are ‘inscribed’ and the logos of western thought is founded.
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Pickles on Olsson, The History of Spaces
