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Lecture Seven - Remember 

What is public life, i.e. our lives as we understand them beyond the private, domestic domain?

What is the nature of the SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS

Dynamic of things – things change, meanings of things change, physical appearance change etc

 Is there such thing as collective memory?

If so, what part does the city and the various scales (e.g. parks, squares etc) & levels (public and private) of space within it play in its production and reproduction?

How do the PAST,PRESENT AND FUTURE exist in the built form and space

 The City as Representation

Architectural, urban and interior design is a form of history writing

All history writing is a triumph of oneself values over others, and construct a series of fragments according to an invented architecture

The City as Spectacle

City not just being a container but a spectacle which tells us things about space

Baroque space

City as Museum – form of public theatre

MATRICES vs TOTALITIES

Matrices

Totalities

Open – ended aggregate of details and difference

Coherent and integrates experience of space/time

Disparate, partial, local attachments collage city

Collective/shared project (social, political, historical)

Our readings of the city/space can be partial

Common, global attachments

 Ventun Scott Brown Yale Study: American Suburb

“PRIVATE ARCHIVE”

Edwardian Club

English Park

Regency Style

 The City as Rescued Memory

 Participation in a coherent Whole

 Franco’s tomb – Madrid

Dark space

Spacially interesting

 The City as Spectacle

Idea of city matrix