Notes from Underground: Plato’s Cave, Piranesi’s Prison, and the Subway
by Marshal Berman
Before long, I realized that the system was a kind of theater — a theater of absurdity and cruelty, whose scenery seemed contrived to create anxiety. But I couldn’t deny it made me think…
Visible Cities
by David Lowenthal
Urban dwellers in the real world […]
The Maps Descriptive of London Poverty are perhaps the most distinctive product of Charles Booth’s Inquiry into Life and Labour in London (1886-1903). An early example of social cartography, each street is coloured to indicate the income and social class of its inhabitants.
Around Manchester: Views of Change and Continuity
This exploration of Manchester before the Industrial […]
I was recently introduced to Smoke: A London Peculiar, and instantly developed a crush.
from A Cold Wind Blows Through New Cross Gate by Matt Haynes
And what do I tell people who want to know where I live? If I tell them I live in Lambeth, they think of Lambeth Town Hall, and assume I’m a […]
Nozone IX continues to delight me. This time, it’s Think Different by Prem Krishnamurthy.
During January and February 2003, Krishnamurthy used only the available computers and programs at the Apple Store SoHo to draw the floorplan and write an essay about the intimate relationship between production and consumption in that space. Here’s an excerpt:
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Acrobat City. Border City. Counterfeit City. Drifting City. Eroded City. Flexible City. Gaseous City. Hyper-Inflating City. Imperialist City. Juxtaposed City. Kismet City. Levitating City. Mongrel City. Narcissistic City. Orchestral City. Polygamous City. Quid Pro Quo City. Relaxed City. […]