http://catasterist.com/2009/01/about-the-night-before-last/ the shape of space |architecture, urbanism & design| Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:32:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://catasterist.com/2009/01/about-the-night-before-last/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Simon Pielow Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:45:38 +0000 http://catasterist.com/?p=383#comment-23 I like the analogy of the layers of the city, with its underground rail tracks and sewers, to something living - a massive beast, imbued with all the senses one would associate with animate objects by the millions of human and non-human beings crawling under, on and above the skin of sidewalks and roads; and, quite possibly, achieving a separate intelligance and perhaps a soul thanks to the mass of sentients. If only an observer could 'read' the city. Excuse the end-of-week rambling. I like the analogy of the layers of the city, with its underground rail tracks and sewers, to something living – a massive beast, imbued with all the senses one would associate with animate objects by the millions of human and non-human beings crawling under, on and above the skin of sidewalks and roads; and, quite possibly, achieving a separate intelligance and perhaps a soul thanks to the mass of sentients. If only an observer could ‘read’ the city.
Excuse the end-of-week rambling.

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