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Dual Wanderings to Bobst How We Form Our Walks Around Subconscious Attachments to Images and Placesby Biz It’s amazing how many different permutations there are to get from my E.7th St. and Avenue A apartment to the Bobst library. As a junior last year, I rarely made the trek. However, this Spring semester as a senior, I found myself scurrying to Bobst exponentially more times than all my previous years as a student here. I... |
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What about the People!The sense of place cant forget about Humanism!by Mechanical As the school year comes to an end and graduation is nearing closer, I’ve been taking a little time to reflect on some of the classes I’ve taken in the past – this one being no exception. One thing I’ve come to realize after much pondering of our discussions of New York’s “sense... |
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An Elevator is Not a HomeApartment culture vs. beach culture by Taylor
In Michael Sorkin's Twenty Minutes in Manhattan, Sorkin remembers sitting on a stoop with Jane Jacobs and watching a man pick up a piece of trash from a bed of flowers and writes, "I find such acts deeply moving. Indeed, it is the fabric of such small behaviors that makes urban life possible, even beautiful... more |
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A Floating Future Europe's first floating apartment complexby Taylor
On the National Geographic website there is an article from July 2012 titled, "Pictures: Floating Cities of the Future"--the article is a short slideshow of various structures built for the sea, some of which are still very much in their conceptual phase and others already have opening... more |
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You Have ArrivedA very feeble attempt at describing why New York is pretty great. by Daniel The first time I came to New York by myself was for a few-day orientation session over the summer before my freshman year of college. I remember nothing about how I got there, only that I know it was by train from Washington, D.C., and that I had no idea where Penn Station was in relation to anything else. I... |
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New York CityThe Concertby Tae Watching the City Talk interview of Michael Sorkin, I remember he says something like, “There aresix and a half billion people. If all of these people were to consume at the rate that we do here [US], the surface area of an additional two planets would be required. This is a picture of the extreme nature of what is becoming... |
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Living UptownA West 71st Street Experience From My Perspectiveby eastcoast Moving uptown has been an experience for me. Before the start of this year, I spent three years of my life living below 14th street and above 1st st. The New York that I had come to know before moving uptown was filled with young people, loud honking cars and taxis. Life was often fast and noisy, and there was not... |
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You Know What They Say About Glass Houses...No, not the stone thing. The thing about the morphology of fear.by Daniel Reading the end of Sorkin's book Twenty Minutes in Manhattan, I was interested in his evaluation of constant surveillance and the rise of glass architecture. His basic argument, roundabout and winding as it is, is that glass architecture sprang up as a mode of display, of performance. He then goes on to argue... |
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The Great Good Place in the East VillageSophie's Barby BigEcho As a resident of the East Village for three years, one bar that is a staple in my time here has been Sophies. Each night we either start there, end there, or bring it up in conversation as an option, like, "…or we could always go to Sophies." That statement is met by mixed reactions: either people nod in... |
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le Pletzl (Little Place)Saving le Marais and Saving Paris by Taylor Jews have held a presence in France since the middle ages and it is a presence that has both evolved and adapted as time has changed the landscape of France and the world alike. Like the Jewish community that resides there, the Marais quarter of Paris has been through a seemingly parallel history itself. Paris's... |
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Stranger Danger Is safety in numbers an allusion?by Taylor In Anthony Flint's Wrestling With Moses, Flint discusses Jacob's belief in the concept of more crowded places as safer places, or perhaps safer feeling places. Jacobs believed in having many eyes on a street at all hours in order to ensure safety and also variety-- she has commented that hardly anyone sits... |
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Big Box ShoppingMy experience with shopping in Costcoby Tonya With shopping habits becoming "…more interested in convenience and efficiency…" in the late 1990s, shoppers turned to the new option of big box stores (Sorkin 100-1). Their basis is in the grocery store that its owner decided to construct using the idea of the assembly line (Sorkin 102). The owner,... |
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Zipping up ColesMy thoughts on NYU’s plan to remodel Coles Gym as “The Zipper Building”by Tonya NYU 2031 Plan. I cannot say that my initial response to the project exists. The most my eyes may have glanced over it while skimming through the many emails I receive from various NYU organizations, departments, and clubs in one day. If it is possible that I read it then my reaction ranges within minor interest to do not care... |
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Makeshift Metropolis and the FutureWhere are we going?by Tae I’m a huge fan of Moshe Safdie’s Habitat 67. If you aren’t familiar with it, Habitat 67 is a housing complex in Montreal made up of repeating, modular pieces that form a mesh of varied and multileveled environments. It reaches up to 12 stories in height and contains 146 residences, each one having access to at... |
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I used to long for the suburban lifestyle..Until I grew older.by Mechanical Throughout the entirety of my life, I’ve always grown up in densely populated cities and have never really had the opportunity to experience the supposed relaxing calmness of suburban life. I was thoroughly accustomed to apartment life, but have never lived any kind of ‘house’ before. The luxuries... |
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Finding Public Space in Post-Industrial BrooklynStreet Life in Morgantown by Woles I have been spending a lot of time in “Morgantown” recently, as my girlfriend lives in one of those infamous Bushwick lofts off of Bogart Street. The neighborhood is young, lively, and vibrant. No one, other than brave Manhattanite who journey out here for Roberta’s for pizza, seems to be over 30. The area... |
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My ApartmentsExploring the Variety of Housing Options in New Yorkby JohnRussell Since coming to NYU and the Gallatin School, I have on multiple occasions been assigned to write a piece on the meaning of New York City to me. While I appreciate the emphasis the university places on being here, I find the essays very difficult to write. They end up feeling forced and contrived. When I happen... |
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New York, I Love You?Thinking about feeling, and feeling about NYCmore |
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Green and Healthy Alternatives to 2031A look into re-appropriation of unused space in a heavily used cityby alizaba I have to start this blog post by repeating a thought from my third blog post for this class, way at the beginning of the semester (whoa, why is it the end of the year already?): I have trouble with change. On the one hand, I adjust very eagerly to change and have the tendency to drop anchor / take roots in seemingly... |
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On Chrystie StreetFamiliar places get boring, except when they don'tby Phi Chrystie Street, in the lush leafy glory of spring or summer, is where New York begins and ends for me - the place where the snake eats its own tail, or the psychogeographical navel, maybe. It's a relatively short street, a southward extension of Second Avenue that runs from East Houston to Canal and ends right by... |
