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The Vortex and the Palimpsest: Seeing the City through Time and Space

There are helpful ways of thinking about the city in terms of time and space using analogy and metaphor: the vortex and the palimpsest. Let’s start with the vortex, and how to think of the city’s development over time. The Vortex New York’s most frenzied periods of development and redevelopment, across hundreds of years of […]