Gandelsonas: The Urban Texts (pr Only) (Chicago Institute of Architecture & Urbanism books) - Softcover

Gandelsonas, Mario

Softcover

ISBN 10: 026257084X ISBN 13: 9780262570848

Publisher: MIT Press, 1991

Synopsis

By adapting Freud's notion of "floating attention" to urban systems, Mario Gandelsonas applies a process of visual drift to the plan of Chicago. He uses mechanical eye of the computer in a "de-layering" process to read the plan of the city and to discover the system of urban notions that are specific to the American grid. Gandelsonas explores the spatial relationships between physical and abstract realities in the Chicago River area, the One-Mile Grid and its subdivisions. By highlighting the anomalies and idiosyncrasies of the grid, the moments where its regularity falters, he establishes a narrative of Chicago's urban text. In separate essays Catherine Ingraham, Joan Copiec and John Whiteman explore the philosophical psychoanalytic, and urbanistic dimension of this provocative analysis.

About this edition

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 026257084X
• ISBN 13: 9780262570848
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96