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The reservoirs of architectural atmospheres
Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world through the body and the body through the world- Rebecca Solnit
Nick Dunn and Richard Brook’s interesting book Urban Maps contains a chapter in which they explore the notion of the city as a ‘poly-nucleic model in which the centre and edge of the city are integrated in a variety of urban conditions’. The integrated city considers our sense of place as simultaneously a physiological entity and a knowledge based abstract construct. We inhabit this landscape both as weary walkers and technologically connected thinkers. They argue however that this strict distinction of analysis or ‘bifurcation of the city’ is perhaps problematic due to the rich diversity of cultural interaction between the actual and digitally represented locality. Continue reading
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The hedge shake, the last living rose quiver
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Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world
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treading the glacier head, looking hard for moments of shine, from twilight to twilight
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