C I T Y | C E N T E R sketches

By david | Published: June 14, 2010

Intermittently working on a ppt for Urban Art Space. Trying to figure out the posture of the text; who’s speaking here, and why? Would like to avoid making a mock-later-Godard, but that boat has probably sailed. Still going to insert animated sequences and noise. Still hunting for more about the Town/High area.

Anyone who wants to direct me to pictures of the Centrum skating rink at Town and High (1977-1983), leave a comment. There’s this picture from the Dispatch, November 1983, but beyond that, squat. Will be hunting the State Library for 1977 stuff…

Here’s a piece from big Corb:

Le Corbusier. The city of tomorrow. Cambridge: MIT, 1971.

War — bringing the annihilation of ungovernable neighborhoods and the creation of great vistas — is the agent non pareil of successful redevelopment.

Here’s three pictures from the August 1975 Columbus Development Report.

East Broad St., Columbus, 1974

The land occupied by older building stock in the foreground will provide ample parking.

Model for National Plaza, 1974

Churches, to which residents attach some significance, we will preserve; neighborhoods, being obsolete to contemporary homeownership, we will not.

Sky police, 1974

As The Corb imagined, citizens of the Ville Radieuse will in fact travel the skies by autogyro. The city’s subcitizens will use other means of transport.
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  • Hi there

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