Comments on: Manuel Castells Talk on the Implications of Networks on Urban Planning http://liftlab.com/think/fabien/2008/03/23/manuel-castells-talk-on-the-implications-of-networks-on-urban-planning/ Fabien Girardin Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:52:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: glenn weiss http://liftlab.com/think/fabien/2008/03/23/manuel-castells-talk-on-the-implications-of-networks-on-urban-planning/#comment-332651 glenn weiss Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:38:12 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/fabien/2008/03/23/manuel-castells-talk-on-the-implications-of-networks-on-urban-planning/#comment-332651 As a writer on public art and public space, I am interested in more information on Castells thoughts as you described below. Do you know which book or text? nurture the notion of distributed monumentality. Build spatial signs of recognition, otherwise people don’t know where they are. It can take the form of monumental architecture (whit the same usual suspects designing the monuments (Nouvel, Gehry, Foster, …- cities are divided by serveral architectural agencies). These monuments become signs of indifications are more important than their actual settings. As a writer on public art and public space, I am interested in more information on Castells thoughts as you described below. Do you know which book or text?

nurture the notion of distributed monumentality. Build spatial signs of recognition, otherwise people don’t know where they are. It can take the form of monumental architecture (whit the same usual suspects designing the monuments (Nouvel, Gehry, Foster, …- cities are divided by serveral architectural agencies). These monuments become signs of indifications are more important than their actual settings.

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