NP Stalker

[David Morris]

This city is Jane Jacobs' antitihesis.

Back in the late 60's Archizoom, and others, dreamed (in jest) of cities
comprised of single mega-structures, modern ideal cities (cartoon
extensions of modernism - commentary - early post-modernism).  Like
Corbusier's Radiant City (the Master's model), they were elevated above the
ground, with endless greenspace beneath them, connected by elevated super
highways. They would have been instant dystopias of authoritarianism.  But.
back then, they looked so clean, so modern.  Pruitt-Igoe was its reality.

Le Corbusier:
http://waskogm.deviantart.com/art/Radiant-City-321567851
http://www.slideshare.net/ctlachu/le-corbusiers-planning-concepts

Archizoom:
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/no-stop-city/
http://www.unit607.com/no-stop-city/

David Morris


On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 9:08 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Christ, the description of the city alone will bring your whole day down.
>
> On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 1:06 AM, Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> http://www.amusingplanet.com/2014/06/the-depressing-industrial-city-of.html
> >
> > Scroll down for the photos.....there's something perverse about the color
> > schemes....
> >
> > love,
> > cfa
> >
> >
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> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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