desire
Like everyone else
Between desire and its consummation
Joy in the merely attainable
Write the books you want to read
Compositions of desire
A QuoteAssemblages are passional, they are compositions of desire. There is no desire but assembling, assembled desire.
The grid and its difficulties
Criticism of the grid and its difficulties was voiced from the start. Olmsted himself noted several problems that arose from the fixed dimensions of the city’s blocks: the impossibility of producing sites for very large buildings and campuses; issues of daylighting; the difficulty of creating systems of formal and symbolic hierarchy within the field of uniformity.