In the city / walking / placemaking / placekeeping
//Jacques Tati films poking fun at modernist middle class obsession with new technologies, efficiency and consumerism
Mon Oncle (1958)
https://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/mon-oncle
Playtime (1967) – office clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIxXZsUPSOI
// The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (2012)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CAfACI7LBY
Destroyed in a dramatic and highly-publicized implosion, the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex has become a widespread symbol of failure amongst architects, politicians and policy makers.
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth explores the social, economic and legislative issues that led to the decline of conventional public housing in America, and the city centers in which they resided, while tracing the personal and poignant narratives of several of the project’s residents.
In the post-War years, the American city changed in ways that made it unrecognizable from a generation earlier, privileging some and leaving others in its wake.
The next time the city changes, remember Pruitt-Igoe.
// Kelly Anderson’s My Brooklyn
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/mybrooklyncp
trailer: https://mybrooklynmovie.com/?page_id=12
// Janes Walk Festival
https://janeswalk.org/about/http://janeswalk.org/about/about-jane-jacobs/
“No one can find what will work for our cities by looking at … suburban garden cities, manipulating scale models, or inventing dream cities. You’ve got to get out and walk.”
— Jane Jacobs, ‘Downtown is for People’ (Fortune Classic, 1958)
Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) was a writer, urbanist and activist who championed the voices of everyday people in neighbourhood planning and city-building.
Jane’s Walk is an annual festival of free, community-led walking conversations inspired by Jane Jacobs.
On the first weekend of May every year, Jane’s Walk festivals take place in hundreds of cities around the world. Jane’s Walks encourage people to share stories about their neighbourhoods, discover unseen aspects of their communities, and use walking as a way to connect with their neighbours.
// Elastic City
ELASTIC CITY WALKS
Todd Shalom
https://www.elastic-city.org/videos
Total Detroit walk by Niegel Smith’s 54 hour walk in Detroit, 2011
https://vimeo.com/31888904
// Kate Connell and Oscar Melara – Book and Wheel
http://bookandwheel.org/projects/
// Laundromat Project – arts producing organization
https://www.laundromatproject.org/
// No Longer Empty – arts producing organization
// Janet Cardiff + Georges Bures Miller
Sound Walks using binaural recording
https://cardiffmiller.com/
https://cardiffmiller.com/walks/
Her Long Black Hair – A walk in central part.
Sound, image and map files available in the shared class Google drive
Night Walk for Edinburgh
https://cardiffmiller.com/walks/night-walk-for-edinburgh/
// Walis Johnson Red Line Archive
https://www.redlinearchive.net/
// iLAND – Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature and Dance
http://www.ilandart.org/
http://www.ilandart.org/purchase-a-copy-of-a-field-guide-to-ilanding/
http://www.ilandart.org/ilab-residency/
// Worlds Fairs
// Panorama of the City of New York
https://queensmuseum.org/2013/10/panorama-of-the-city-of-new-york
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// Zillow maps show the ghosts of razed neighborhoods
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/zillow-ghost-maps-displacement
// Martha Rosler’s “Culture, Class, Urbanism” on e-flux