the surrender is
not an option
because you can
only fight it for so long
it’s like cork
floating in the middle of the ocean
screaming
i must control it
i must have
control
it’s hard to just
let life happen . . .
1
giant leap – the truth is changing
end street park
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theme
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|
selepe
mutugi
mazibuko
baloyi
gxamza
mandyanda
maphumulo
|
a
|
historical development
|
c
|
24/7: timetable + programmes
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d
|
borders + boundaries
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f
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movement + typologies
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e
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landscapes + languages
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| b | urban + economic morphologies | |
g
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culture: food + music
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construct a base plan and
begin to record the people’s perceptions of the site based on the above
themes.
the question is political: how
to resuscitate the city instead of encouraging escape from it, how to
resuscitate the city as a domain of the public realm? for a society of the
collective . . .
a common architectural language
can be born out of the generic ethics of urbanization, and by generic i mean
this undifferentiated common quality, which precedes the individual. it can
be born out of this condition, but it should reclaim it as common space,
something that addresses the dignity of those who live in the city.
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joubert
park
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theme
|
|
ngoma
guya
mfusi
zuma
godsell
thantsha
ncame
|
b
|
urban +
economic morphologies
|
e
|
landscapes
+ languages
|
|
g
|
culture:
food + music
|
|
a
|
historical
development
|
|
f
|
movement +
typologies
|
|
c
|
24/7:
timetable + programmes
|
|
d
|
borders +
boundaries
|
|
construct a base plan and
begin to record the people’s perceptions of the site based on the above
themes.
the
geographer
david harvey once wrote that “the freedom to make and remake our cities
and ourselves is … one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human
rights”. generations of
urban theorists, from lewis
mumford to jane
jacobs to doreen
massey, have suggested that the place where cities get “remade” is in the
public rather than private sphere. part of the problem, then, with privately
owned public spaces (“pops”) – open-air squares, gardens and parks that look
public but are not – is that the rights of the citizens using them are
severely hemmed in. although this issue might be academic while we’re eating
our lunch on a private park bench, the consequences of multiplying and
expanding pops affects everything from our personal psyche to our ability to
protest.
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