The sound of 4 delightful cats this morning in Echo Park.
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"Among many other things, OWS has thus revealed the doubly-bound character of “privately owned public spaces,” and by extension of “public-private partnerships.” Here OWS’s unnamed antagonist is the New York City Planning Commission, which has played a major role in converting public space in New York City into a fetish that obscures the actual privatization that has overtaken the city. To call this hypocritical is only mildly inaccurate, since that accusation implies an awareness of the duplicity. Such awareness may indeed exist, but it is not necessary for the knot to be tied. Architects and patrons of architecture — many indisputably well-intentioned — have also played prominent roles in this privatizing process. That they find themselves (perhaps contrary to their own political sympathies) on the other side of the barricades from the OWS protesters by virtue of their role in producing and reproducing the fetish of public space may be dismaying to them; but more often than not it is the truth."
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Reinhold Martin’s fascinating read on the relationship between Architecture and Urban Planning and #OWS
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A new Sound!
