MEMBER BLOG TAG: cities
| Thursday, April 28, 2011 1:35AM | | | | DE-GENTRIFY NEW YORK/Fire! | Tags: Hmm how about Kundera, thanks to Schulman, & Jane Jacobs instead?
“The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, only because, and only when
| | | | People can become New Yorkers but NY can't become someplace else." - Sarah Schulman
On the way home to finish this piece, there were firemen in front of my apt bldg. I sniffed. Whew acrid. “Did someone do something stupid again?” I said.
1st fireman laughed, sarcastic, “Oh no, not something stupid, not the plethora [old NYC education] of a--- who constantly waste our time.” A few months ago, a resident of a loft (made from 3 apts, the cruelty of dislodging many for few was mentioned by our PEN panel) in back of my small strange apt, ran down a woman in her late 70s, getting out of the fire they ignored chasing after their (smarter) dog ; he was... | | | | | | | Sunday, May 4, 2008 9:58PM | | | | The Secret Lives of Cities Revealed | Tags: cities, femicide, censorship, crime, murder, representation, Riyadh, Guatemala, Minneapolis, El Paz
| | | The Secret Lives of Cities
Thursday, May 1st, 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Instituto Cervantes New York
Juan de Recacoechea, Yousef Al-Mohaimeed, Francisco Goldman & Joshua Furst. Moderated by Matt Weiland
Riyadh. Minneapolis. La Paz. Guatamala City. As Paris Review editor and panel moderated Matt Wieland rightly pointed out, this is likely the first time on earth that the four aforementioned cities have been yoked together on a panel.
Urban spaces are reflective of the denizens who constitute its population and there's often a sociological symbiosis that takes place between the inhabitants of a city and its culture and climate. Whether consciously or unconsciously we attribute the qualities of a city - its architecture, cuisine, and pace of life - to the personalities... | | | | | |
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