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Fuller’s City
Gregoire Filcidor
We are now looking at New York City from a location that’s not NY. We are viewing New York through binoculars across the Hudson in New Jersey. By the year 2156 New York City is covered in a polyvinyl synthetic lightweight shaped material shaped in a dome-like structure. Like Fuller Buckminster, his dome over [...]
Space/Time
Merriam-Webster definition of space is “a boundless three-dimension extent in which objects and events occur and have relative positions and direction”. Webster also defines the word “time” in many different ways (nouns, verbs, adverbs….). The best definition of time is “the measured or measurable period during which an action process or condition exists or continue.” [...]
Living in Oblivion
New York City and its Elements
Gregoire Filcidor
In Kevin Lynch The City Image and its Elements he went out and listed 5 elements a city may have (Paths, Edges, Districts, Nodes and Landmarks). In his writing he gave a clearly written definitions for each of theses elements and then his own interpretations of those elements and also provided us studies and [...]
“How To Study Cities”
Gregoire Filcidor
History Seminar I
“How To Study Cities” is an introductory article that pays tribute to the many great theorist, scientists, authors and who ever contributed to the study of understand the city. Richard LeGate author if this article goes through the many steps and ways one may take to approach the city. He mentions [...]
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