Quoted: In such ideas, one finds a bridge between his inescapable moral imperative to break with a destructive fantasy-world through a decisive Act, and his recognition that the conditions for action, for the shaping of the site événementiel must be created through a long history of much less dramatic but no less decisive Acts. In a sense, this is a shift from revolutionary gesture to revolutionary gestation.

Quoted: Workshop Research Library and the Digital Library of the Commons, located on the third floor of the main Workshop building. The research library houses over 30,000 items, available for use by the Workshop’s students, faculty, visiting scholars, and colleagues.

Quoted: The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) is a gateway to the international literature on the commons. The DLC provides free and open access to full-text articles, papers, and dissertations. This site contains an author-submission portal; an Image Database; the Comprehensive Bibliography of the Commons; a Keyword Thesaurus, and links to relevant reference sources on the study of the commons.

Video of a lecture on urban hydrology by Fernando de Mello Franco

Interesting article on temporary galleries by gravitymax...

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Retail spaces present a unique kind of site-specificity, from the shape of the space to traces of leftover consumerism.

Quoted: He traveled by boat, train and bicycle through England, France, Egypt, Turkey, and Greece. Bacon heard there were architecture jobs in China, and on a whim, boarded a ship with very little money in his pocket, and no concept of what opportunities would await him.

Quoted: William H. (Holly) Whyte (1917-1999) is considered the mentor for Project for Public Spaces, because of his seminal work in the study of human behavior in urban settings. While working with the New York City Planning Commission in 1969, Whyte began to wonder how newly planned city spaces were actually working out – something that no one had previously researched. This curiosity led to the Street Life Project, a pioneering study of pedestrian behavior and city dynamics.

Quoted: In the Fall of 1972, she says, “Jules toured the neighborhood selling apples from the back of his station wagon and talking co-op to anyone who would listen. He also distributed flyers door-to-door. Finally, when enough people had chipped in a few dollars apiece, Jules was ready to make his dream a reality. He rented the store front at 555 Carpenter Lane, which had been Sid’s Delicatessen.”

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Quoted: This movie shows the construction process of a school in Rocinha, the largest favela of Latin America, located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.