October 2010
18 posts
September 2010
10 posts
“It started with a $24.8 billion price tag and was supposed to be completed in 13 years. It was heralded as a sweeping investment that would connect our country from coast to coast, improve national security, and create opportunities for economic development. In reality it took 35 years to finish, cost more than $129 billion, and was over 46,000 miles long. “It” was the national highway system, which received initial funding from President Truman before President Eisenhower completed the tab in 1956.”
—High-speed rail: the long view — Metropolitan Planning Council (via smarterplanet)
No one, today, can know what the city of tomorrow will be. One
part of the semantic wealth which belonged to it in the past … it
will lose that, certainly … The creative and formative role of the
city will be taken charge of by other communications systems …
their vocabulary and syntax, consciously and deliberately.
Juliette, in Jean-Luc Godard’s Two or Three Things I Know About
Her (1967)
