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It was a freak of fancy in my friend (for what else shall I call it?) to be enamoredof the Night for her own sake; and into this bizarrerie, as into all his others, Iquietly fell; giving myself up to his wild whims with a perfect abandon.

Rue Montmartre

It will found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and thetruly imaginative never otherwise than analytic

The wild effects of the light enchained me to an examination of individual faces; andalthough the rapidity with which the world of light flitted before the window, prevented me fromcasting more than a glance upon each visage

modest young girls returning from long and late labor to a cheerlesshome, and shrinking more tearfully than indignantly from the glances of ruffians,

as if feeling insolitude on account of the very denseness of the company around.

dwell

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here is, however, one important exception to the rule that 1t rakes a ~ide functional mixture of users to populate and enliv~n a neighborhood park through the day.

Does anything about this physical arrangement of the neighbor-hood affect the park physically? Yes. This mixture of uses of buildings directly produces for the park a mixture of users who enter and leave the park at different times. 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

a lovely place of shade

e officials they controlled allowed all public roads not needed for their own access to their estates to fall into disrepair to discourage public use.

hese were the men who, during the "Middle Ages of American in-dustry," the half century of unbridled industrial expansion following the Civil War, had harnessed America's vast mineral resources and tapped its long-stored capital to create needed industrial growth but who, to turn that growth into personal wealth, had stationed themselves at the "narrow~" of production, the key points of production and distribution, and exacted tnbute from the nation.

o de~per.ate we~e New York's masses that they made the trip anyway -m steadily mcreasmg numbers.

Mortals dwell in that they save the earth

Earth is the serving bearer, blossoming and fruiting, spreading out in rock and water, rising up into plant and animal. When we say earth, we are already thinking of the other three along with it, but we give no thought to the simple oneness of the four.

Dwelling and building are related as end and means.

anonymous

Maps, on the other hand, function strategically to colonise space, rendering geographical knowledge as an abstract, ahistorical place that erases the spatial practices that are the condition of its possibility.

thus the street geometrically defined by urban planning is transformed into a space by walkers.

writing of the city.

re-use culture and “reappropriate the space organised by techniques of sociocultural production”

~practices of space refer to a specific form of operations ("ways of operating"), to "another spatiality"6 (an "anthropological," poetic and mythic experience of space),

ro be hfted to the summit of the World Trade Cent . o t f h . ' er ts to be l'f . u o t e City s grasp

World Trade Center

From the security and stability of place we are awareof the openness, freedom, and threat of space, and vice versa

It is that shape, color, or arrangement which facilitates the making of vividly identified, powerfully structured, highly useful mental images of the environmen

Like any good framework, such a structure gives the individual a pos-sibility of choice md a starting-point for the acquisition of fur-ther information.

This book will assert that legibility is crucial in the city setting, will analyze it in some detail, and will try to show how this concept might be used today in rebuilding our cities

a thing perceived only in the course of long spans of time

Hell, maybe your kin will survive the apocalypse and sing mighty ballads of your tragic battles by a roaring bonfire.

I love New York. My love is strong. My love is psycho.

Stop whining

one of those “Why I Left New York” essays on the off chance that New York would notice.

5AM

common man.'

The growing importance of women's friendships between 1780 and 1835,

their concerns for youthful readers were clearly grounded in reality.

contagion

But nineteenth-century advice writers added a significant new dimension to this powerful image.

a bad cold and a high fever.

golden rhythm

a six-month leave of absence

it had counted after all,

that first spring

I stopped believing in new faces

my twenty-eighth,

and none of it would count

and none of it would matter

the heroine is no longer as optimistic as she once was.