John-Thaddeus Keeley

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Urban Dérive

Two Journeys. (Parking Lots of Crown Street)

April 2, 2014 - 2:54pm

Discussion Question

The city as a (loose?) collection of fragments

March 26, 2014 - 1:16pm

I really enjoyed this week's readings, particularly Poe's Man of the Crowd, Bejamin's piece on the flaneur, and Thrift's Legibility of the Everyday City. In different ways, each relates interpretations of the city which individualize the experience of urbanity. Poe has an intense moment of connection with another city dweller in the midst of the density and vitality of... more

Diagram/Map

Digital News Environment of Crown Street

February 26, 2014 - 2:04pm

This map/diagram is starting to explore how news influences and affects our perception of physical environments. I'm trying to set up hierarchies of space, event, news, as well as the publication venues and date of publication.

Discussion Question

Face engagements, the construction of society, and our participation

February 19, 2014 - 12:40pm

I found the essay "Face Engagements" to be a really interesting perspective on how we construct urban society. The author analyzes the different ways people recognize (or do not recognize) the presence of others in the public urban sphere. The most interesting discussion centers around "civil inattention" which is the subtle and courteous, but totally legible, way in which... more

Photography Series

Surveilling Crown Street

February 5, 2014 - 1:51pm

Reading Responses

The Ecological Approach to the Study of the Human Community

February 4, 2014 - 9:29pm

The Ecological Approach to the Study of the Human Community
R.D. McKenzie (1924)

R.D. McKenzie's "The Ecological Approach to the Study of the Human Community" suggests that the spatial and temporal distribution of human society can be understood by analyzing it like scientists analyze plant and animal ecology - that is to say systematically and scientifically.... more

Videos

Crown Street Nights

January 29, 2014 - 7:16pm

A view of Crown Street from the perspective of three of the street's bouncers.

Discussion Question

Choosing a method of analysis

January 29, 2014 - 12:38pm

As an architecture student, I found Holdsworth's essay to be a great provocation. In school we are asked to produce, produce, produce. Through our many plans, sections, diagrams, perspectives, etc. we are taught to represent some grand, great, or good idea about the built environment and usually we inflect those representations with some kind of narrative about the social or... more