Showing posts with label art of the city. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art of the city. Show all posts

Sunday, August 13, 2017

Idea or Neurosis

East 23rd Street


"New York is less a place than an idea or perhaps a neurosis."
Peter Conrad, The Art of the City

Monday, March 9, 2015

Mechanical Intelligence



"New York is more now than the sum of its people and buildings. It makes sense only as a mechanical intelligence, a transporter system for the daily absorbing and nightly redeploying of the human multitudes whose services it requires."
Peter Conrad, The Art of the City