Beyond “reading” the facade elevation (or side) of a building as a palimpsest, how does read a blockfront?…
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Following on the post: The Vortex and the Palimpsest: Seeing the City through Time and Space, this post explores the concept of the palimpsest as a way of decoding the city.
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It helps to think about the city using analogy and metaphor for how it developed through time and space: the vortex and the palimpsest. Use the idea of the vortex to think about the city’s uptown growth through time. The Vortex If Manhattan were stripped of its towering skyscrapers and scaled back to a human […]