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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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mark wigley – quote of the day
architects are builders who theorize – articulate builders…
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A whole history remains to be written of spaces – which would at the same time be the history of powers (both these terms in the plural) – from the great strategies of geo-politics to the little tactics of the habitat, institutional architecture from the classroom to the design of hospitals, passing via economic and […]
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for some people, it is important that sex be embedded in contexts resonant with meaning, narrative and connectedness with other aspects of life; for other people it is important that they not be; to others it doesn’t really occur that they might be. the epistemology of the closet, p. 25
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k d lang – quote of the day
i worship this tenacity
and the beautiful struggle we’re in
love will not elude us…
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doris lessing – quote of the day
She would say: ‘Yes, Mr Rodde,’ and giggle and sit coyly on his bed to smoke a cigarette. Like a schoolgirl.
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