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Enframements: Valuating decay in the city

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.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:RICE/oai:scholarship.rice.edu:1911/13979
Date January 1995
CreatorsMontoya, Eran
ContributorsWittenberg, Gordon
Source SetsRice University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis, Text
Format58 p., application/pdf

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