I've seen mention of Rebecca Solnit's
Infinite City before, but I just chanced to run across Don Mitchell's review of her book for
H-Urban. He quotes a lovely passage from her opening essay:
A book is an elegant technique for folding a lot of surface area into a
compact, convenient volume; a library is likewise a compounding of such
volumes, a temple of compression of many worlds. A city itself strikes
me at times as a sort of library, folding many phenomena into one dense
space ... a folding together of cosmologies and riches and poverties and
possibilities.... A city is many worlds in the same place. Or many
maps of the same place.
From books to libraries to cities - the ways we might move from words on a page to words on walls.
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| "Don't Spy On Me", Istanbul, Summer 2010 |
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