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A Double Sense of PlaceA Cross-Reading of Two "Place" classes in Gallatinby Malick A Double Sense of Place.
No one can understand “place" (sure that I don’t) without running into politics, geography, economics, history, philosophy, literature, physics, etc--but none of these categories can sum ‘place’ up. And no one, I think, can approach 'place'...more |
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My Hometown/HighwaysNo sidewalks, windy roads...by raufrichtig Despite his often condescending tone, I find great truth in what Kunstler writes about in The Geography of Nowhere. In the final chapter of the book, he writes: “…We have lost our knowledge of how physically to connect things in our everyday world, except by car and telephone. You might say the...more |
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Primordial Grit and MajestyThe Freedom Tunnelby BLANG I visited the Freedom Tunnel with a few friends on a brisk April morning. We were told that to experience the tunnel fully, we had to be there to see the first rays of light penetrate the cavernous darkness. So we set out at 5:00 am and entered the tunnel in total darkness. After a few minutes of blind...more |
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Closing Thoughts, eh?We'll see if any of these discrete fragments can come together to form any sort of coherent message.by subwayfox
Closing thoughts, eh? We'll see if any of these discrete fragments can come together to form any sort of coherent message. Personally, I'm not hopeful, but such is the nature of these things.
A sense of place. The genius loci. At the beginning of... more |
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On to better placesOr what I imagine will be better placesby raufrichtig As my time at New York University is coming to a close, I’ve been spending a lot of my time thinking about where I would like to go after I graduate and finally excavate the piles of things that have been sitting in my room at home (mostly untouched) since I...more |
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Teaching ArchitectureThe importance of Learning about the Places we Inhabitby Ivy I've been studying architecture in many different ways since I entered NYU. Gallatin has allowed me do take architectural history courses at CAS, studio courses and courses like this one at Gallatin, as well as an entire year of architectural studio, history and theory classes at Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture...more |
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Pausing to Make a Friend Phenomenology of Place and Friendship Revisited
by BLANG >Tuan contemplates the motions of time and space and reminds us of how place is a pause in movement. Place differs from space in its ability to evoke intimacy. In a place, we have paused to appreciate the given area in which we find ourselves. We seem to always be drifting in space and it is the place...more |
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Music & Architecturemy reasons for taking this course and the effect it had on meby jacob_g
This semester was my first at Gallatin. I applied into the music composition program at Steinhardt and stayed there for three semesters before feeling that I needed a change. I was losing interest in the theories and principles taught in music school, not that they were no longer pertinent, but...more |
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Learning Our CityDon't overlook itby wtd This was such an interesting course. I’ve found that I’m always telling my friends all of the neat little factoids that I’ve learned from the readings (flattening out the hills and valleys of Manhattan, the creation of Central Park, New Amsterdam, Eisenman’s awfully uncomfortable architecture, Saint Jane...more |
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Goodbye East VillageHello Brooklyn by mro One of my first posts was about the small table area that my roommates and I consider a living room. It doesn’t function well and it isn’t aesthetically pleasing, but somehow we imbued meaning into the place. Thinking back on my college experience, it is incredible to consider the types of places I’ve learned to...more |
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Building A PlayHow different is the building of a house from writing a play?by raufrichtig In the 8th chapter of A Place of My Own, Michael Pollan offers a description of finishing work that really spoke to the way I feel about the end of an artistic process. He writes: “No one big thing, finish work consists of a great variety of discrete tasks, many niggling, some inspiring, but none you would...more |
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Settlingin, down, and just plain settlingby Pidgin
Everyone is getting married. Friends, friends of friends, and those people facebook recommends that you be friends with... all of them are posting pictures of engagement rings, bridesmaids, and new houses.
In a loose sort of way, the feelings that these engagements are stirring... more |
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The Quality of ExperienceThe many facets of our experiencesby MattK I didn’t realize that there was so much involved in creating a sense of place. It’s so easy for us to pass through spaces and remain unaware of the way that they work on us. I’m not so ignorant of that anymore. Looking back on my earlier posts, I see that what I value in a space and a place...more |
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"Once Upon a Midnight Dreary"The Edgar Allen Poe Houseby Brittan Anthony Flint’s description of Greenwich Village as a “place steeped in history” (68), drawing great writers and musicians to it for decades, re-contextualized the meaning of Washington Square park and Greenwich Village to me. When I read Flint’s mention of Edgar Allen Poe living in an...more |
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Building HomeHow the notion of home can be created away from home by Jake What does the word “home” really mean? Is it physical? An idea? Can it be created or destroyed? Yi-Fu Tuan delves deep into the connotation of “home” in Chapter 11 of his book Sense and Place titled “Attachment to Homeland. He declares, “home is at the center of an...more |
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AdiosTrading an aesthetic for a sense of placeby Griffin
I am cursed, like my mother, I can't seem to escape the constant striving towards the perfect aesthetic and like her I too am a nester. I think it is easy to say it was the way I was raised. My mom was an interior designer and my dad was in real estate. Obviously they have put an emphasis on the importance of a...more |
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An Echo of HomeHow this class has helped connect me back to my roots.by Courteney In my very first blog post, I described what I considered to be a good place: my parents' walk-in closet in my old childhood home. As I explained, the time I spent in that place strengthened in me the desire to write, to craft stories that I could share with others. It's been years since I've seen that...more |
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Crowding How the notion of "crowdedness" is perceived differentlyby Jake Everyone experiences the sense of “crowding” at some point during their lives. Interacting and living with others is a primitive skill that humans learn from the earliest beginnings of development. People live in society, thus crowding is unavoidable. What constitutes this notion of crowding? How...more |
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Sense of Place, Sense of HomeHow place helps us define ourselvesby Amelia-Lucy I never told anyone I was from Texas until I moved to New York City. During the seventeen years I lived in Texas, I told everyone I was from Maryland, which is where I was born, and lived for the first two years of my life. I was astounded at how quickly I returned to my Southern “roots” when I finally...more |
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Finding a Sense of Place How analysis has given me a notion of homeby Jake Looking back on my first post, it amazes me how my analytical approach to perceiving a “good place” has changed since the beginning of the semester. While the theme of the experience of the place has been present throughout the semester, through our readings I have learned the countless aspects that go into...more |
