[-empyre-] "can cities 'know' things?"

[Paul Brown]

In relationship to this discussion the work of the Space Syntax group  
at the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) in London may be of  
interest:

   http://www.spacesyntax.org/
   http://www.space.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/

also the Songlines which enable Aboriginal Australian to embed  
meaning in landscape:

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songlines

also (a bit tangential but...) the Research Into Lost Knowledge  
Organisation (RILKO) - especially their work on landscape.

   http://members.aol.com/rilko/

Best
Paul

On 18 Jan 2008, at 08:11, Christina McPhee wrote:

> hi all,
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> Srdjan, you write eloquently about the riddles inside the  
> complexities of what you call arranged space to constructed  
> culture, in cities..
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> Can cities 'know' things?
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> "What if cities were to act as "knowledge" that was in a sense  
> suppressed or , even, oppressed under the siege of 'culture'?
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> How do you create in each city you work in, 'a iste for scouting  
> and detecting missing knowledge?"
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> the old rhetoric of 'knowledge is power' you've playfully inverted  
> into 'missing knowledge is power" -
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> Katherine and Srdjan this is one of the coolest intrigues of your  
> work, this little trigger on the pulse of 'missing'...  please give  
> us a story or anecdote or two how this played out along the "Lost  
> Highway" ... in Zagreb for example, or Ljubljana....
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> ( re quotes: I 've been reading Srdjan's essay "School of Missing  
> Studies", which appears in the book "Did Someone Say Participate?  
> An Atlas of Spatial Practice," Markus Miessen and Shumon Basar,  
> eds, MIT Press 2006.)
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