FYI to any bay area housing twitter folks who are free on weekdays between 1 and 5p: Berkeley has a library with an archive of the Telegraph Hill Dwellers’ newsletter from the 60s. I think it could be… interesting to see what their use of language looks like in that era.
Yes. I’m on your side, but do feel the tug in the other direction as well.
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On a purely aesthetic note, I think the neighborhood organizations have an ossifying effect; they fetishize a style and make it “formal,” removing the elements that can’t be proceduralized. Even where housing needs are stable, I think they have poor effects on architecture.
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their love for the sign eclipses what made them love the sign to begin with; they understand rhythm and repetition, but not variation; they suffocate the city into a dull charicature of itself
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