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Waterfront Assemblages: Absurdity of Billion-Dollar “Solutions”
This week’s readings were quite humourous, and I don’t believe in a way that was initially intentioned until the authors’ found themselves writing about matters that simply were absurd. I read Vormann’s critique as a matter-of-fact academic paper that stated the reality of waterfront infrastructure and its glossed-over practicalities. Paired with both Metcalf’s recount of…
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Sanitation & Power: Professionalization of Health to Maintain Distance
Illich traces the evolution of an inherited dwelling into a residential commodity through the ideas of odour, aura, and the utopian city. What made places liveable were homes built and maintained by families and tribes, each with their own cultures, traditions, and auras. These “auras” are the inevitable by-products of life’s processes: nasal signals like…

