Reading the on bullshit paper. author saying in old days craftsmen did not “cut corners”. looking this up , think that was literally about the road you took, per reading [2]. paved road vs over fields.
but hmm, shortcuts are kind of organic rosds not necessarily sloppy. like, we have, planned vs actually useful question here ?
Idea can be extended maybe , what are we building anyway. You will not do it perfectly from your first idea.
There is also the Kintsugi, that hah, I encountered also in the movie about the wrestler , Mark Kerr, where when a ceramic piece breaks, you dont toss it, you use golden joinery, emphasizing its flaws.
One of the parts I reallt enjoyed, visiting tokyo, was that although there were many arterial roads, for mass transit and cars, they all had capillaries too. Very small windy wavy paths, through the neighborhoods tucked away from the noise . Walking through these was very calming .
Manhattan grids are mostly just overwhelmingly loud. Though it does have Broadway which is famously a preserved path from before cars existed and a few Mayors have given back some parts of Broadway to the pedestrians – who still fight with cyclists , naturally xD–, so there are perhaps some inklings of what calm might look like some day.
Central Park I believe was a huge eminent domain project, but the people who lost property rights are all long gone .
So is Manhattan organic or corporate. Is it a conversation with the people or a hostile takeover. Haha I guess well see.
references
- on bullshit, Frankfurt Harry, paper
- http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/124338/ddg#124380
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi
- The Samshing Machine