What we see here is how cities founded thousands of years ago (Barcelona, Copenhagen, London, Paris and Rome) retains the “original” distribution of the streets, the old cities defined by the old defensive walls. Newer cities founded only hundreds of years ago like NYC san Francisco etc, have a more ordenated distribution.
This is so great — we all pretty much know the layout of different cities, but to see them together like this, they’re more like tile designs than cities. It becomes something else; it’s art.
– Jessie –
ahhhh! nolli maps… i love them, but they bring back haunting memories of architecture school. even though it would take ages, i would love to do a large version of a nolli map on a full wall.
Swissmiss is an online garden Tina Roth Eisenberg started in 2005 and has lovingly tended to ever since.
Besides swissmiss, Tina founded and runs TeuxDeux, CreativeMornings and her Brooklyn based co-working community Friends Work Here. (She also started Tattly which was recently adopted by BIC)
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wow thats amazing! i wish it showed more cities though..
Jan 30th, 2008 / 9:45 am
This is really nice, looks really amazing.
Jan 30th, 2008 / 9:55 am
I think this figure-grounds are stunning. Reminds me of early studio projects. I think they would make good art…or perhaps a table top.
Jan 30th, 2008 / 12:20 pm
What we see here is how cities founded thousands of years ago (Barcelona, Copenhagen, London, Paris and Rome) retains the “original” distribution of the streets, the old cities defined by the old defensive walls. Newer cities founded only hundreds of years ago like NYC san Francisco etc, have a more ordenated distribution.
Jan 30th, 2008 / 2:46 pm
This is so great — we all pretty much know the layout of different cities, but to see them together like this, they’re more like tile designs than cities. It becomes something else; it’s art.
– Jessie –
Jan 30th, 2008 / 6:20 pm
The old cities retain all their charms. San Francisco looks interesting. I would put the nine cities on a wall.
For the tabletop suggested by momeld, it would be great if each city became a tablecloth.
Jan 31st, 2008 / 2:07 am
ahhhh! nolli maps… i love them, but they bring back haunting memories of architecture school. even though it would take ages, i would love to do a large version of a nolli map on a full wall.
thanks for the inspiration.
Feb 6th, 2008 / 3:54 pm