He moves about like someone who knows his way around the plac

It does away with all the drapery that a crime represents. Only the armature remains: the pursuer, the crowd, and a~ unknown man who manages to walk--throu-gh 'Lonero; in sucl\ a way that he always remains i~th;;-;;;:acile~O:fihe"crowd'

n times of terror, when everyone is something of a conspirator, "'.}1 "'"~~-'everybody will be in the position of having to play detective.

he occupation is often full of interest; and he whoattempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distanceand incoherence between the starting-point and the goal.

Yet to calculate is not in itself to analyze.

This young gentlemanwas of an excellent —indeed of an illustrious family, but, by a variety ofuntoward events, had been reduced to such poverty that the energy of hischaracter succumbed beneath it, and he ceased to bestir himself in the world, orto care for the retrieval of his fortunes.

I made my way into the street, and pushed through thecrowd in the direction which I had seen him take; for he had already disappeared. With some littledifficulty I at length came within sight of him, approached, and followed him closely, yetcautiously, so as not to attract his attention.

I observed an order of men somewhatdifferent in habits, but still birds of a kindred feather.

The old manner of the stranger re-appeared.

If we compare New York with Istanbul, we may ~y that the one is a cataclysm, and the other a terrestrial paradise: New -York is exciting' and upsetting:....S_o are.th~ ~Ips;~:?~ a tempest; so is a battle. New York is not be~andlf it stimu· lares our practical activities, it wounds our sense of happiness ....

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Robert Moses is the man who made all this possible.

Far in the past, Washington Square did have a good population of users. But although it is still the "same" park, its use and es-sence changed completely when its surroundings changed. Like all neighborhood parks, it is the creature of its surroundings and of the. way its surroundings generate mutual support from diverse uses, or fail to generate such support

nd consider also the parks that go to waste most of the time, just as Baltimore's beautiful Federal Hill does.

The reason neighborhood parks reveal certain general prin-ciples about park behavior more clearly than specialized parks do is precisely that neighborhood parks are the most generalized form of city park that we possess.

The beach could be reached only by a road that crossed an adjacent privately owned property, but the federal government had purchased a~ easement for public use of that road.

Distrusting anyone "from away," the baymen distrusted especially any-one from New York.

Other matters, it had seemed, should take precedence. There would be time to get to parks.

How does this hap-pen? In this way, that mortals nurse and nurture the things that grow, and specially construct things that do not grow.

dwelling is not experienced as man's Being; dwelling is never thought of as the basic character of human being.

The truck driver is at home on the highway, but he does not have his lodgings there; the working woman is at home in the spinning mill, but does not have her dwelling place there

The gendered pedestrian subject’s point-of-view is drawn ‘down’ to the level of the street by the difference her gendered body makes socio-culturally.

Any particular trajectory or detour composes an unforeseeable path, a “long poem of walking”, out of the formal spatial possibilities at its disposal

a productive, yet relatively unconscious, speaking/writing of the city.

~emories tie us to that pla_se .... It's personal, not interesting to anyone else, but after all that's what gives a neighborhood its char-acter. "48

Perhaps cities are deteriorating along with the procedures that organized them.

These practitioners ake use spaces that can t reseen; their knowledge of them is as 'n as that of lovers in each ~i's arms.-The paths that correspond in this intertwining, unrecog-~ized ~ in which each body is an element signed by many others, ~e r;gi6it!iiJit is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by their blindness.

A blind man told William James that "hethought few seeing people could enjoy the view from a moun-tain top more than he."

A longtimeresident of Minneapolis knows the city, a cabdriver learns tofind his way in it, a geographer studies Minneapolis and knowsthe city conceptually. These are three kinds of experiencing.

Recent ethological studies show that nonhuman animals alsohave a sense of territory and of place.

In the same way, we must learn to see the hidden forms in the vast sprawl of our cities. We are not accustomed to organizing and imaging an artificial environment on such a large scale; yet our activities are pushing us toward that end.

ach individual creates and bears. his own image, but there see°:s to be substantial agreement among mem-bers of the same group. It is these group images, exhibiting con-set'l.sus a~ong significant numbers, that interest city planners who aspire to model an environment that will be used by many people.

At every instant, there is more than the eye can see, more than the ear can hear, a setting or a view waiting to be explored.

I began to cherish the loneliness of it, the sense that at any given time no one need know where I was or what I was doing.

I never told my father that I needed money because then he would have sent it, and I would never know if I could do it by myself.

Ir 1s EASY to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends.

Complaining is the only right you have as a New Yorker.

If New York were a cat, it would eat your face after you collapsed in the kitchen from a heart attack.

The plan you don’t plan for isn’t the plan you planned but it’s usually more original.

Malleable and confiding by natu;e, the youth proved easy prey

evil comes to them as an enticement."1

broke away from traditional re-straints on their conduct,