Re: <documenta X><blast> the image/the urban

Jordan Crandall (xaf@interport.net)
Wed, 13 Aug 1997 10:36:29 -0400

Attila Sohar wrote:

> I think the big question is how to provide sociability, urbanity of a
> citizen who spends more time in public transports than in the streets?
> It's an important issue, I think,within the confines of habitable space
> in real time, but also at a territorial scale.

This is indeed an important issue. One area of work is to see the space
of public transport as urban -- the urban as a conduit, whose very
condition is movement, transport, vehicularity. A system of mobilizing,
converting, and in/habiting vectors. But then what remains? -- what is
'outside' of this? What is 'resistant'?

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