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more about cities
(both of these from archinect.com) “Cities can’t win. When they do well, people resent them as citadels of inequality; when they do badly, they are cesspools of hopelessness….Cities are the contradictions of capitalism, spelled out in crowds. They are engines … Continue reading
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Tagged banham, cities, friendship, jane Jacobs, space
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life as potential metaphor for life
1. Copies of Yesterday and Today with the “pasteover” cover removed are worth less than copies with the “pasteover” intact — where the thing once of most value remains hidden. 2. The more you remember a memory the less true … Continue reading
Posted in music, science/math
Tagged lasik, radiolab, space, the beatles
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uncertainty
“I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.” — scientist Richard Feynman (in this interview [youtube clip]) “To create a space that never existed is what interests me.” — architect … Continue reading
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Tagged feynman, heller, kennedy, libeskind, mccloud, mcluhan, nixon, space
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greatness
in History: from “Reversal of Fortune” By Arkady Ostrovsky: “For the Western world, 1929 marked the start of the Great Depression. For the Soviet Union, it was a year that Joseph Stalin called the ‘Great Break’—the ending of a short … Continue reading
international space station
As a literature and architecture appreciator, I love Russia. So as both a Cold War kid and a science nerd, I think everything about the space station is really cool: Space Station at 10: Much Teamwork, Less Science (discovery.com) “The … Continue reading
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Tagged nationalism, russia, space
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