la ville et la memoire – cities and memory
browsing through archives of the future. today’s city in photographs from the past.
continued from tome 1 /zurich.
[pullquote author=”italo calvino, the invisible cities, ch 2″]”in maurilia, the traveller is invited to visit the city and, at the same time, to examine some old post cards that show it as it used to be: … a bandstand in the place of the overpass, two young ladies with parasols in the place of the munitions factory.”[/pullquote]
[pullquote author=”ch 6″]”the form of things can be discerned better at a distance.”[/pullquote]
footnote
[pullquote author=”ch 5″]”suspended over the abyss, the life of octavia’s inhabitants is less uncertain than in other cities. they know the net will last only so long.”[/pullquote]
continued in tome 3 /zobeide.
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