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What fascinates an architect about New York City is the city's genetic code. Every city has one, and they are all different. In New York, the code is structured by the street grid, says the author. The grid ensures that every place is anonymous and interchangeable with every other place. One cannot...
| Publicado en: | Architectural Record Vol. 191; no. 12; pp. 49 - 51 |
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BNP Media
Dec2003
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| Sumario: | What fascinates an architect about New York City is the city's genetic code. Every city has one, and they are all different. In New York, the code is structured by the street grid, says the author. The grid ensures that every place is anonymous and interchangeable with every other place. One cannot site a building in a prominent location on the grid. There is no prominent location on a grid. All sites are, in principle, equal. This principle is proclaimed by the fact that most streets are numbered, like DNA, rather than named. |
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