Things to Consider: biological history of cities; what is the meaning of a building; degradation; gentrification
August 18, 2019
Overall, I really enjoyed this reading. I now think about cities and human environments so differently. My favorite sections were the first three.
Environments sometimes take on a life of their own. The most interesting topics were related to how spaces are influenced by people (how they may possibly degrade) and gentrification.
I also enjoyed how the third reading framed landscapes as living beings. The examples about the islands of New York having a dark history of being a place or sick and homeless people to being an animal sanctuary conceptually intrigued me.
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Barley, Nick., (2000) Breathing Cities: the architecture of movement. Birkhäuser.
Samantha's RCA Process 