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Notes from the Underground. Blog for the blogs for "Notes from the Underground," the New York City class at Eugene Lang College in Fall, 2006. Assignments will be here. Also links to all the other blogs. Excelsior, Robin. Tuesday, October 17, 2006. Er, one more request. See the links to the right, towards the bottom of the list where it says "Link your blog to this site." It's a NYC subway map where you can link blogs to specific stations. Sort of a natural for us, right? Some very valid points! SCROLL D...
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Notes from the Underground
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Notes from the Underground. Blog for the blogs for "Notes from the Underground," the New York City class at Eugene Lang College in Fall, 2006. Assignments will be here. Also links to all the other blogs. Excelsior, Robin. Saturday, September 30, 2006. PATTERNS, TRAFFIC, GEOMETRY AT. In fact, you could say that many cities are composed of fractals. I took this film of the pedestrian traffic at the station:. The peep show design has been kept for kitsch value. So all the "bad" stuff has been removed, a...
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Notes from the Underground
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Notes from the Underground. Blog for the blogs for "Notes from the Underground," the New York City class at Eugene Lang College in Fall, 2006. Assignments will be here. Also links to all the other blogs. Excelsior, Robin. Sunday, September 17, 2006. Note: please bring a printout of "The Subway as Intermediary Public Space" to class on Monday the 18th. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Look here - not on the syllabus - for post assignments. The syllabus is only meant to give you a. Cities of the Future.
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Notes from the Underground
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Notes from the Underground. Blog for the blogs for "Notes from the Underground," the New York City class at Eugene Lang College in Fall, 2006. Assignments will be here. Also links to all the other blogs. Excelsior, Robin. Tuesday, September 19, 2006. DUE SEPT. 25. Starting at "Introduction" and stopping at "Safety and Security." (This revisits some themes we've already discussed - like the "third place" in more detail.) Then read other sections, noted below. To the part of the text that discusses this...
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Notes from the Underground
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Notes from the Underground. Blog for the blogs for "Notes from the Underground," the New York City class at Eugene Lang College in Fall, 2006. Assignments will be here. Also links to all the other blogs. Excelsior, Robin. Saturday, September 23, 2006. There is no class on this day due to Yom Kippur. However, a post is due. Post notes from our visit to the Times Square Subway on 9/27 (see below). This is due instead of the assignment on the syllabus. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Cities of the Future.
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Notes from the Underground
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Notes from the Underground. Blog for the blogs for "Notes from the Underground," the New York City class at Eugene Lang College in Fall, 2006. Assignments will be here. Also links to all the other blogs. Excelsior, Robin. Wednesday, October 04, 2006. There are no bad questions, only an abundance of imperfect answers). Does public space really serve as a forum for political action? Is it really the arena of history, diversity, immortality? How is the kinaesthetic experience taken into account? R I don't k...
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Notes from the Underground
http://notesfromtheunderground1.blogspot.com/2006/10/for-oct.html
Notes from the Underground. Blog for the blogs for "Notes from the Underground," the New York City class at Eugene Lang College in Fall, 2006. Assignments will be here. Also links to all the other blogs. Excelsior, Robin. Monday, October 02, 2006. FOR OCT. 4, 2006. You post the assignment in the syllabus, or this alternative (and more interesting) assignment. Subway City. How would you apply them to today's city? According to Subway City. How does the point of view of this book differ from 722 Miles.
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Notes from the Underground
http://notesfromtheunderground1.blogspot.com/2006/10/visual-summary-of-class-104-most-of.html
Notes from the Underground. Blog for the blogs for "Notes from the Underground," the New York City class at Eugene Lang College in Fall, 2006. Assignments will be here. Also links to all the other blogs. Excelsior, Robin. Wednesday, October 04, 2006. VISUAL SUMMARY OF CLASS, 10/4. Charming, odd, irregular - because cities have often just accrued like a coral reef. And ended up very irregular. (See how I used a natural metaphor to describe cities? We continually try to bring the city closer to nature.
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Notes from the Underground
http://notesfromtheunderground1.blogspot.com/2006/09/due-sept.html
Notes from the Underground. Blog for the blogs for "Notes from the Underground," the New York City class at Eugene Lang College in Fall, 2006. Assignments will be here. Also links to all the other blogs. Excelsior, Robin. Sunday, September 17, 2006. Due Sept. 20. The (dis)comfort of strangers. Read chapters one and eight of The World of Strangers. A work of sociology examining the interaction of strangers in the urban environment. How do others do this? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Look here - not...
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Notes from the Underground
http://notesfromtheunderground1.blogspot.com/2006/10/due-oct.html
Notes from the Underground. Blog for the blogs for "Notes from the Underground," the New York City class at Eugene Lang College in Fall, 2006. Assignments will be here. Also links to all the other blogs. Excelsior, Robin. Wednesday, October 04, 2006. DUE OCT. 9. There are two assigned readings. One is a meditation on public art; the other is a poetic piece on public space by a renowned "public" artist. Pick a piece of public art in the subway, using this link. Is this successful as "public art"? Look her...