a series of conversations about public space
MALL TALK
The Unfortunate Tale of Victor Gruen / Ewan Morrison, 2012
On the Mall / Joan Didion, 1979
The Terrazzo Jungle / Malcolm Gladwell, 2004
The World In A Shopping Mall / Margaret Crawford, 1992
Junkspace / Rem Koolhaas, 2002
Excerpt from The Heart of Our Cities / Victor Gruen, 1965
PRISON TALK
Prison Architect - A Clink of One’s Own / Simon Parkin, NYT
Inside America’s Toughest Federal Prison / Mark Binelli, NYT
Living Death of Solitary Confinement / Lisa Guenther, NYT
Prison Architecture and the Question of Ethics / Michael Kimmelman, NYT
Trial by Water: Two Examples From Early Modern Netherlands / Matt Goodman, New Histories
The Radical Humaneness of Norway’s Haiden Prison / Jessica Benko, NYT
The Real Lesson of the Stanford Prison Experiment / Maria Konnikova, NYT
RESOURCES
CEMETERY TALK
Reconfiguring Urban Spaces of Disposal, Sanctuary, Remembrance / Karla Rothstein
Urban Death Project / Katrina Spade
Constellation Park / Latent Productions
Constellation Park Video / Latent Productions
Interview with Susanne Wiigh-Masak, Part 1 & Part 2
Of Dirt and Decomposition: Proposing a Resting Place for the Urban Dead / Katarina Spade
POTTY TALK
History of Shit / Dominique Laporte
In Praise of Shadows / Junichiro Tanizaki, 1977
Impressions of Japanese Architecture / Charles Moore
Do Android Crows Fly Over the Skies of an Electric Tokyo? / Akira Suzuki, 2004
Knee Deep / Slavoj Žižek Reviews ‘Free World’ by Timothy Garton Ash
TOILET/BATH Triumph of the Apparatus / Kurt Nieminen
AIRPORT TALK
Aviopolis / Gillian Fuller and Ross Harley
Bodies in Alliance and the Politics of the Street / Judith Butler
Air Age Obsolescence / Koss Kiely, CLOG Landmark Issue
HOTEL TALK
Be My Guest / The Economist / Dec 2013
Lost In Translation / Sofia Coppola
The Grand Budapest Hotel / Wes Anderson
The Art of Home Staging / Tim McKeough / NYT / Jan 2016
POOL TALK
History of Shit / Dominique Laporte
In Praise of Shadows / Junichiro Tanizaki, 1977
Impressions of Japanese Architecture / Charles Moore
Do Android Crows Fly Over the Skies of an Electric Tokyo? / Akira Suzuki, 2004
Knee Deep / Slavoj Žižek Reviews ‘Free World’ by Timothy Garton Ash
TOILET/BATH Triumph of the Apparatus / Kurt Nieminen
WALL TALK
UnWalling Citizenship / Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman / The Avery Review / Issue 21 / Jan 2017
Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings / Michele Foucault / 1972-1977
What History Teaches Us About Walls / Darcy Eveleigh / NYT / May 2016
INFRASTRUCTURE TALK
Trumps' big Infrastructure plan? It's a trap / Ronald A. Klain / The Washington Post / Nov 2016
HOUSE TALK
Critique of Everyday Life / Henri Lefebvre / Verso Books / 1947
The Ghost Tenants of New York City / Jake Blumgart / Slate / 2016
Affordable Housing That is Very Costly / Josh Barro / NYT / 2014
Housing Brass Tacks / The Architectural League
We're Now in the Second Biggest Housing Boom of All Time / Kevin Drum / MJ / 2017
Architecture vs. Housing: The Case of Sugar Hill / Susanne Schindler / Urban Omnibus / 2014
Themroc / Claude Feraldo / 1980
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Public and Commons / Reinhold Martin / Places / Jan 2016
Occupy: The Day After / Reinhold Martin / Places / Dec 2011
You (Still) Have to Pay for Public Space / intro by Simon Sadler, Charles Moore
Radical Praxis: Activism Within and Beyond Architecture / Keefer Dunn