Cities, etc.

Cities, etc.

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Assignment 2

Assignment 2 – City Images (5 pts)

Assigned: January 20, 2011

Due: January 25, 2011 (by 5:00pm)

Find one image that represents “city” or “urban” to you. This can be from where you grew up, where you currently live, where you’d like to live, or another place that typifies “city” or “urban” to you. Post the picture to: www.flickr.com with the file name as firstname+lastname.jpg (or other image type). The image should be no larger than 4” x 4” at 150 dpi, color or black and white. The account name is public.issues@yahoo.com and the password is uap1024.
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13 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 24, 2011 at 10:44 AM

    Class Contributions
    Dan Pellegrini
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTAlOxqKYNo

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  2. UnknownJanuary 24, 2011 at 11:43 AM

    class contribution:
    Alexandra Matallana

    http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1kQnUT/envisioningdevelopment.net/map

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  3. jacob34January 24, 2011 at 11:52 AM

    class contribution

    http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1n8IW7/www.time.com/time/photogallery/0%252C29307%252C2043404%252C00.html

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  4. KelleyJanuary 24, 2011 at 12:27 PM

    class contribution: Kelley O'Leary

    http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/portfolio/2011/01/brooklyn_bridge_park.asp

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  5. Ryan EdwardsJanuary 24, 2011 at 12:33 PM

    class contribution:
    Ryan Edwards

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO3dhWHrNeM&feature=related

    “The energies even a small city now commands would have roused the envy of an Egyptian Pharaoh in the Pyramid Age.” - Mumford

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  6. AlissaJanuary 24, 2011 at 2:33 PM

    class contribution:

    Alissa Tucker

    The following excerpts are from American Art: A Cultural Experience by David Bjelajac (page 338) and references Hopper's famous Nighthawks painting (http://www.artchive.com/artchive/h/hopper/nighthwk.jpg).

    "Hopper had been a student of Robert Henri from 1900 to 1906, but he did not share his teacher's optimistic view of modern urban life. Paintings such as this one were probably informed, in part, by the writings of Lewis Mumford, a leading sociocultural critic, who argued that a genuine avant-garde architecture would not be devoted to corporate-financed skyscrapers but rather to communal projects built on a smaller, more human scale."

    "During World War II, Hopper's Nighthawks, representing a desolate city street corner, powerfully expressed the nation's darkened mood. This painting anticipates the ominious lighting, urban set designs, and predatory, fatalistic themes of many film noir motion pictures that hollywood directors and writers produced after the war. Though the neighborhood in Nighthawks appears seedy and derelict, the large, plate-glass windows of the all-night diner signify the sleek geometry and transparency of modern architecture. Yet far from contributing to a liberating sense of spatial openness, Hopper's glass-encased, harshly lit diner merely exposes its lonely and hard-bitten nocturnal characters to our voyeuristic surveillance. The artist obscures our view of the darkened, apparently empty street around the corner of the diner, thereby stimulating feelings of anxiety over city crime. Hopper's disturbing vision of an impersonal, alienated urban culture was shared by George Tooker and other realist painters."

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  7. Sabrina KramerJanuary 24, 2011 at 4:03 PM

    Class Contribution

    Heard this quote on TV the other day and it reminded me of our first lecture.

    http://www.oprah.com/own-master-class/Diane-Sawyers-Master-Class-Quotes_1

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  8. kfulmer4January 24, 2011 at 4:58 PM

    Class Contribution: (Kristen Fulmer)
    All of these are great representations of people's interpretations of urban/architectural form. They are all buildings, but they seem busy and energetic which I think are two important components of something urban.

    http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1oe6tg/www.photopoly.net/30-impressive-examples-of-architecture-photography/

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  9. EmilyJanuary 24, 2011 at 5:00 PM

    Class Contribution: Veronica Plischke

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/06/AR2009100601259.html

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  10. AnonymousJanuary 24, 2011 at 9:06 PM

    Class Contribution: Thomas Austin Larrowe

    Here are a couple songs that could be good for class....

    Summer in the city - Styx
    http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/artist/Styx/1473

    city of blinding lights - U2
    http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/s/City+Of+Blinding+Lights/iMriP

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  11. Tiffany WilsonJanuary 25, 2011 at 9:20 AM

    Class Contribution:

    My City of Ruins by Bruce Springsteen

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck3wa-VlsZM

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  12. Daniel HoogenboomJanuary 25, 2011 at 9:35 AM

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  13. Daniel HoogenboomJanuary 25, 2011 at 9:50 AM

    Class Contribution:
    Known to be the most densely populated place on earth until it was destroyed. Vertical congestion is a massive problem when it comes to third world countries and even in the US.

    http://www.archdaily.com/95757/kowloon-walled-city/

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