Jan 10, 2011

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

"...does not mean a city can be mapped out in segments of about a square mile, the segments defined with boundaries, and districts thereby brought to life. It is not boundaries that make a district, but the cross-use and life." (Jacobs: 132)

"The cross-links that enable to function as a thing are neither vague nor mysterious. They consist of working relationships among specific people, any of them without much else in common than that they share a fragment of geography" (Jacobs: 133)

Jane Jacbos - The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Jan 2, 2011

How to be alone

Society is afraid of alonedom, like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements, like people must have problems if, after a while, nobody is dating them. but lonely is a freedom that breaths easy and weightless and lonely is healing if you make it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7X7sZzSXYs