His manner atthese moments was frigid and abstract; his eyes were vacant in expression; whilehis voice, usually a rich tenor, rose into a treble which would have soundedpetulantly but for the deliberateness and entire distinctness of the enunciation

The Frenchman supposes it thevoice of a Spaniard, and ‘might have distinguished some words had he beenacquainted with the Spanish.’ The Dutchman maintains it to have been that of aFrenchman; but we find it stated that ‘not understanding French this witnesswas examined through an interpreter.’ The Englishman thinks it the voice of aGerman, and ‘does not understand German.’ The Spaniard ‘is sure’ that it wasthat of an Englishman, but ‘judges by the intonation’ altogether, ‘as he has noknowledge of the English.’ The Italian believes it the voice of a Russian, but ‘hasnever conversed with a native of Russia.’

The impossibility of egress, by means already stated, being thusabsolute, we are reduced to the windows

It was the most noisome quarter ofLondon, where every thing wore the worst impress of the most deplorable poverty, and of the mostdesperate crime. By the dim light of an accidental lamp, tall, antique, worm-eaten, woodentenements were seen tottering to their fall, in directions so many and capricious that scarce thesemblance of a passage was discernible between them.

This old man," I said at length, "is the type and the genius of deepcrime.

As he proceeded, the company grew more scattered, and his old uneasiness and vacillationwere resumed. For some time he followed closely a party of some ten or twelve roisterers; but fromthis number one by one dropped off, until three only remained together, in a narrow and gloomylane little frequented.

"You can't make an ome-lette without breaking eggs

n th~ fate of "all mism of the modern econom -met mto air. The Innate dyna-this economy, annihilates ev:; ~~d of the ~ulture that grows from vironments, social institutions y m:~gp~ha~ ~~ ~~eates-physical en-moral values-in order to ' ysica 1 eas, arttstic visions h create more to go 00 dl 1 ' t e world anew. This driv d II '.' en . ess y creating I. b. .

They needed vast acreage in order that their castles could be set far enough back from public roads so that they would not have to see the public

And if, somehow, the parks were created, how would people get to them? Long highways would be required, and their rights-of-way would necessarily cross hundreds, if not thousands, of different properties, and that meant hundreds, if not thousands, of landowners who would be ready to fight, and that would mean hundreds and thousands of additional con-demnation proceedings. The reformers realized that even in the unlikely event that they won on Long Island, that they actually succeeded in unhorsing the powerful barons, they wouldn't know _'Yhat to do with their victory.

"restoring the land to park use."

In effect, this ts a crrcular arena, a theater in the round, and that is how it is used, with com-plete confusion as to who are spectators and who ar~ the show.

~e reverse seldom happens. People or uses W'lth less money at therr command, less choice or less open respectability move into already weakened areas of cities, neighborhoods that are no longer coveted by people with the luxury of choice, or neighborhoods that can draw for financ. ing only upon hot money, exploitative money and loan-shark money. The newcomers thereupon must try to make do with something which, for one reason or another, or more typically for a complexity of reasons, has already failed to sustain popular-ity. Overcrowding, deterioration, crime, and other forms of blight are surface symptoms of prior and deeper economic and func. tiona! failure of the district.

They use the park at different times from one another because their daily schedules differ. The park thus possesses an intricate sequence of uses and users

The first assumes a one-way causal relation: cities are physical entities designed by the minds of people and built by the body. A body is thus a physical tool used in the service of the mind, a disembodied consciousness, to make a physical city. Another common version of this dominant way of seeing bodies and cities is that the city is ‘bad’ for the body, ‘unnatural’ and damaging; this is still, however, very much a one-way relation.

Tactical ways of operating appropriate and divert spaces away from administrative strategies designed to create abstract place

“produce each other as forms of the hyperreal, as modes of simulation which have overtaken and transformed whatever reality each may have into the image of the other

They transmute the misfortune of their theories int theories of misfortune.

hese names make themselves available to the diverse meanings given them by passers-by; they detach themselves from the places they were supposed to define a""ii_d ;rve as imaginary meeting-points on itineraries which, as metaphors, they determme for reasons that are foreign to their original value but may be recogmzed or not by passers-b~

The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able to transform action into legibility, but in doing so it causes a way of being in the world to be forgotten.

Objects and places are centersof value

He can articulate ideas but he has difficulty expressingwhat he knows through his senses of touch, taste, smell, hear-

a, sand, or ice, or through a tangled maze of jungle. Yet even the sea has the sun and stars, the winds, currents, birds,.and sea-colors without which unaided navigation would be impossible. The fact that only skilled professionals could navi-gate among the Polynesian Islands, and this only after extensive training, indicates the difficulties imposed by this particular environment. Strain and anxiety accompanied even the best-prepared expeditions.

While such devices are extremely useful for providing condensed data on interconnections, they are also precarious, since orientation fails if the device is lost, and the device itself must constantly be referred and fitted to reality.

Only powerful civilizations can begin to act on their total environment at a significant scale. The conscious remold-ing of the large-scale physical environment has b:en poss~b.le ~nly recently, and so the problem of environmental 1mageab1hty is a new one.

Ever since the Great Awakening, the official power and prestige of the American clergy had be~n in a state of decline. With the coming of the American Revoluuon, and espe-cially by the nineteenth century, ministers--l,.~~ ?egun to sh?re up their failing status by claiming major responsibility for formu~g the character of the rising generation in the young republic. 88 But m the confidence man, they found what they perceived to b~ a serious competitor for the power to shape the character of Amencan Y?uth.

young man had just set foot in the city when he was approached by a confidence man seeking to dupe and destroy him. Why did this archetypal villain pop out of the shadows just as the American youth entered the city in search of fame and fortune?

In the confi-dence game, an impressionable youth fell under the power of a villain who corrupted his character, enticed him into a life of vice, and finally reduced him to slavery.

L.A. smells like flowers all the fucking time and I think that smell is pumped in from kind of secret reservoir of perfume. But I didn’t leave New York because I fell out of love with the city. If New York had voice mail I would leave it insane messages day and night. I would tell it how much I love and miss it. The energy. The culture. The Jamaican meat pies.

New York’s indifference to your plight makes you strong. Fall to your knees and thank New York for making you strong.

Just avoid people who smile too much. Especially when smiling is not the appropriate emotional response to a situation.

Just avoid people who smile too much. Especially when smiling is not the appropriate emotional response to a situation.

New York isn’t your fantasy. You’re the fantasy in New York’s imagination. One day the fever will break and every New Yorker will immediately cease to be.

I hurt the people I cared about, and insulted those I did not. I cut myself off from the one person who was closer to me than any other. I cried until I was not even aware when I was crying and when I was not, cried in elevators and in taxis and in Chinese laundries, and when I went to the doctor he said only that I seemed to be depressed, and should see a "specialist."

It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young.

I stopped believing in new faces and began to under-stand the lesson in that story, which was that it is distinctly possible to stay too long at the Fair