Unrecognized by most Houstonians, the city is riddled with empty spaces. Abandoned sites are overlooked by denizens of a city that constantly erases its own past, reinventing itself completely anew. Ties to the past are few. These spaces of decay are re-occupied by traces of objects that used to exist there. These fragmented occupations are monitoring stations that provide a link between the individual and the unobserved city, between an unfounded future and a forgotten past. Bound in a matrix of global and local conditions, they map another kind of city, one that is transcendant and ephemeral simultaneously.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:RICE/oai:scholarship.rice.edu:1911/13979 |
Date | January 1995 |
Creators | Montoya, Eran |
Contributors | Wittenberg, Gordon |
Source Sets | Rice University |
Language | English |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Thesis, Text |
Format | 58 p., application/pdf |
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