The event was later broadcasted as a documentary on NBC in the Bay Area and received lots of news coverage locally and nationally

A dia-logue such as this could provide a chance for the residents of the Powderhorn Park and greater 9th Ward area an opportunity to engage in a conversation about the needs of the community, and perhaps to reach some sort of consensus about pressing issues that might make good topics for future conversations, perfor-mances, classes, workshops, etc.

The Roof is on Fire provides an excellent model that can be used and expanded upon in other communities.

but the work led to further projects that aimed to explore some of the most press-ing issues they spoke of.

Another per-tinent issue was sexual relations and teen pregnancy, which was explored further in the project titled Expectations.

Police relationships with youth in the area were identified as a particu-larly relevant issue, thus leading to the creation of a police train-ing film, and a larger project called Code 33 that also tackled police relationships with youth in the community

There was a very strong youth culture present that Lacy aimed to tap into, engaging inner-city youth, many of whom were people of color, in a conversation that challenged the media’s por-trayal of them.

The project was heavily supported by the Oakland Unified School Dis-trict

which led to the per-formance known as The Roof is on Fire.

The Roof is on Fire was the first of several public displays or-chestrated by Suzanne Lacy in collaboration with the Oakland Public School District in the 1990s.

produced by masses that make some parts of the city disappear and exaggerate others, distorting it, fragmenting it, and diverting it from its immobile or

The ordinary practitioners of the city live “down below,” below the thresholds at which visibility begins. They walk—an elementary form of this experience of the city; they ar

When one goes up there, he leaves behind the mass that carries off and mixes up in itself any identity of authors or spectators.

ut this was part of the life of the Village I knew a decade after she wrote her book.

But the point of cruising, or at least one point of cruising, is feeling yourself alone and anonymous in the city, feeling that the city belongs to you, to you and maybe a chanced-upon someone like you-at

But New York was a very different city four decades ago.

The automobile is at the heart of this general propaganda, both as supreme good of an alienated life and as essential product of the capitalist market: It is generally being said this year that American economic prosperity is soon going to depend on the success of the slogan "Two cars per family."

but it should be noted that the last hours of the night are generally unsuitable for derives.

literary communism.

They stress that no constructive action was considered, since they all agreed that the most urgent task is to clear the ground.

But they generally simply assume that elegant streets cause a fe eling of satisfaction and that poor streets are depressing, and let it go at that.

It has long been said that the desert is monotheistic. Is it illogical or devoid of interest to observe that the district in Paris between Place de la Contrescarpe and Rue de l' Arbalete conduces rather to atheism, to oblivion and to the disorientation of habitual reflexes?

a short description of the protest is available on the spot in the English, German, Hebrew, Russian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Hungarian languages. This explains why the anti-monument is on the route of guided tours and visited by individual travellers as well (Photo 9)

memorial spaces conceived to challenge the very premise of the monument’ (Y

I argue that a memorial site’s public acceptance and success is correlated with its capacity to e

The budget for architecture is a hundred times the budget for public art because a building provides jobs and products and services that augment the finances of a city.

But the choice of inside or outside, of private or public, is outdated now. In an electronic age, you have all the informa- tion of the city-the information of one city after another, of one city piled upon another city-at your fingertips, on a computer terminal, in the privacy of your own home.

A person might come here specifically for a service that, as a by-product, inserts that person into a group of people seeking the same service; or the person might come here primarily to be part of a group,

Private space becomes public when the public wants it; public space becomes private when the public that has it won't give it

right-a place made public by force

the quartz watch that was no trouble to make and no worry to wear, the cheap wristwatch you could buy for two or three dollars off-the-shelf and on-the-street. The wristwatch was no longer an expensive graduation present, no longer a reward for a lifetime of service to the corporation. Time came cheap now; you picked up a watch like a pack of matches as you walked down Canal Street. Watches were instant fashion, you chose one to suit your every mood.