patrick geddes – quote of the day

31Mar09

town plans are thus no mere diagrams; they are a system of hieroglyphics in which man has written the history of civilisation, and the more tangled their apparent confusion, the more we may be rewarded in deciphering it
cities in evolution, p. 170

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synekism…

27Dec08

the word ‘synekism’ comes from the greek word ‘synokismos’… ‘synoi’ part means ‘coming together of’ (as in synthesis) and the ‘kismos’ part coming from the greek word ‘oikos’ that means ‘house’… synoikismos would mean the condition created by the material fact of coming together of houses, or in a general sense, by the increasing denseness [...]

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Tags: architecture, delhi, munirka, private/public, space, urban

intimacy…

01Oct08

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‘m’

10Sep08

recently started attending classes of a course on ‘cinema and the city’… it is a mphil level optional course for those doing mphil in cinema studies in jnu… my entry point is of course through the city part of the course… we saw the film ‘m’ today… directed by fritz lang… of the german expressionist school… made in 1931… one of the earlier movies on the serial killer theme…

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Tags: borges, cartography, cinema and the city, encyclopedia, excess, fritz lang, m, mapping, modern, urban

wall-ing the sez…

09Sep08

keeping the khiladi number 1-s away from the sez number 1…

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Tags: architecture, gurgaon, khiladi no 1, private/public, sez, space, urban, wall

street worlds…

09Sep08

diagonal splitting of worlds… speed and risks… comfort and safety…

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Tags: safety, space, street, urban

this half of the room is illegal…

30Aug08

this aint a very good picture… being taken from within a bus… but i hope one can at least understand what has happened to those rooms depicted in the picture… those are half-rooms… the ‘legal’ half… the rest, ‘illegal’ half, has been destroyed by delhi municipality bulldozers…

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Tags: deleuze, dilli, guy debord, israeli defense force, palestine, planning, private/public, space, urban, wonko the sane

sites and satrapi

01Apr08

[self-portrait as cyborg, aref adib]
these websites i came across recently, and found interesting:
doing beyond gender
[not much archival richness yet, but promising]
cittaslow international
aref adib’s photography site
alternative film guide
ps: go buy marjane satrapi’s complete persepolis… brilliant… gloria steinem has this to say about d book: “You’ve never seen anything like Persepolis – the intimacy of a [...]

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Tags: aref adib, city slow, cyborg, donna haraway, film, gender, marjane satrapi, persepolis, urban

atsushi tsunoda

23Jan08

i have caught this ‘urban-space’ fever and it seems its gonna stay for some time… and i feel good about that so most of my time online is spent reading/looking up on urbanity (cultures, economies, spatialities, histories, architectures, genderednesses etc)… and came across this set of images by atsushi tsunoda, capturing [...]

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Tags: atsushi tsunoda, cuba, havana, space, urban