March 2007
12 posts
Bering Strait Bridge →
The city […] does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a...
– Italo Calvino, ‘Invisible Cities’
Streets are the space left open between buildings…In great cities, spaces...
– Rebecca Solnit, ‘Wanderlust, A History of Walking’
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All utopias are depressing because they leave no room for chance, for...
– Georges Perec, ‘Species of Spaces’
Paris will become a winter garden; espaliered fruit trees on the boulevard. The...
– Gustave Flaubert, ‘Bouvard and Pecuchet’
We often preserve the memory of an indefinable charm from these towns...
– Georges Perec, ‘Species of Spaces’