Category Archives: Urban

06-Slum

Anomie Theory describes the effects of early industrialism and the resulting social division of labor with rising suicide rate. Accordingly, in times of social upheaval, “collective consciousness” is weakened and previous norms, moral convictions, and controls dwindle.

Durkheim

07-Lion

Opening

Downtown Campbell, California

“It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born. Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eon of the gods.”

Chapter 14: Oxen of Sun – Ulysses by James Joyce

Nine

These are the 9 counties of the Bay Area.

The Golden Gate Bridge stretches across water connecting Marin & San Francisco Counties.

The Delta flows into the bay between Solano & Contra Costa Counties.

City of San Jose is in Santa Clara County; Matt Mahan is the Mayor.

23-Muse

Children’s Discovery Meadow
WeWork overlooking Children’s Discovery Meadow

Remote work has isolated people. Downtowns in the last century were characterized as industry hubs. The new lure for cities are the central social districts. Restaurants, coffee shops, and coworking spaces add robust connectivity to a city’s economy.

BUSINESS INSIDER

22-Narl

Up & Over the Sidewalk by GGarchar (2022)
Upon the Solid Sand

A man walks upright. For him it is strenuous to climb a steep hill, because he has to keep pushing his own vertical mass upward and cannot gain any momentum.

The rabbit is better off. His forelegs support his horizontal body and the great back legs do the work. They are more than equal to thrusting uphill the light mass in front of them.

Rabbits can go fast uphill. In fact, they have so much power behind that they find going downhill awkward, and sometimes, in flight down a steep place, they may actually go head over heels.

WATERSHIP DOWN (1972) by Richard George Adams