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From: "Anand Bhatt." <interface.lists@xxxxxxxx>
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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 23:51:01 +0530
IVAN CHTCHEGLOV
Formulary for a New Urbanism
1953
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We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun.
Between the legs of the women walking by, the dadaists imagined a monkey
wrench and the surrealists a crystal cup. That’s lost. We know how to
read every promise in faces — the latest stage of morphology. The poetry
of the billboards lasted twenty years. We are bored in the city, we
really have to strain to still discover mysteries on the sidewalk
billboards, the latest state of humor and poetry
...
All cities are geological. You can’t take three steps without
encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move
within a closed landscape whose landmarks constantly draw us toward the
past. Certain shifting angles, certain receding perspectives, allow us
to glimpse original conceptions of space, but this vision remains
fragmentary. It must be sought in the magical locales of fairy tales and
surrealist writings: castles, endless walls, little forgotten bars,
mammoth caverns, casino mirrors.
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cont'd...
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