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Common Ground - City of Spectacle
SIDEWALK AS CITY DIAGRAM
The sidewalks of the city are a
canvas on which the life of the city is represented. Every piece of that canvas
is filled with elements – points, lines, curves, shaded areas, inscriptions.
Its structure is one of a graphic diagram. How do we interpret this diagram? It
seems to make most sense to interpret it as a representation of an overall
urban condition of which it is part – the city.
In this particular piece of
sidewalk, the elements are rich and diverse. On the gray background of the
asphalt there are bigger and smaller dots of various sizes and color, a long
curved line passing through, and a bigger, organic shaped area of homogenous
color. Their configuration is reminiscent of a city. The curved line is a river
cutting through the urban area, as rivers tend to. In the dense urban fabric
there are openings – public spaces and important buildings. And the city’s plan
is dominated by a large irregular structure – a park or a fortress, with other
smaller public spaces scattered inside.
Like in a city, the layers of the
sidewalk represent different times. The dots came before the spill of the park.
The river was there before the dots. It is easy to read the history of this
diagrammatic city.
Can this image be New York City? Or is it a
different version of New York, a parallel
universe in which Central Park is a big
organic spill in the center of a radial city structure? I wonder how many of
these cities, these versions, are out there on the sidewalks of New York? It seems that
it could be a whole universe of diagrammatic cities, a network of graphic urban
tissue, existing simultaneously with the life of the metropolis. Ancient
Cities, Medieval Cities, Ideal cities, Utopian cities, Modernist Cities,
Avant-garde cities, Collage cities – they are all inscribed under the feet of
the city, representing different cultures that come together in the form of its
population, visitors, history, influences. They are New York.
The sidewalks of the city are a
canvas on which the life of the city is represented. Every piece of that canvas
is filled with elements – points, lines, curves, shaded areas, inscriptions.
Its structure is one of a graphic diagram. How do we interpret this diagram? It
seems to make most sense to interpret it as a representation of an overall
urban condition of which it is part – the city.
In this particular piece of
sidewalk, the elements are rich and diverse. On the gray background of the
asphalt there are bigger and smaller dots of various sizes and color, a long
curved line passing through, and a bigger, organic shaped area of homogenous
color. Their configuration is reminiscent of a city. The curved line is a river
cutting through the urban area, as rivers tend to. In the dense urban fabric
there are openings – public spaces and important buildings. And the city’s plan
is dominated by a large irregular structure – a park or a fortress, with other
smaller public spaces scattered inside.
Like in a city, the layers of the
sidewalk represent different times. The dots came before the spill of the park.
The river was there before the dots. It is easy to read the history of this
diagrammatic city.
Can this image be New York City? Or is it a
different version of New York, a parallel
universe in which Central Park is a big
organic spill in the center of a radial city structure? I wonder how many of
these cities, these versions, are out there on the sidewalks of New York? It seems that
it could be a whole universe of diagrammatic cities, a network of graphic urban
tissue, existing simultaneously with the life of the metropolis. Ancient
Cities, Medieval Cities, Ideal cities, Utopian cities, Modernist Cities,
Avant-garde cities, Collage cities – they are all inscribed under the feet of
the city, representing different cultures that come together in the form of its
population, visitors, history, influences. They are New York.
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