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Reading Responses

On Becker and photography

by Sarah Smith
April 16, 2014 - 2:25pm

[photo by Garry Winogrand]

I'm going to break up this reading response into two parts: a reaction to some direct statements Becker makes, and a parallel with the discussion from this week's theory II class.

I took a photojournalism class in undergrad, in which we learned a bit about technique and a lot about the history and certain standout figures in the field. A lot...

(Re)Presenting the Street

by Benyameen Ghareeb
April 9, 2014 - 3:23pm

In “(Re)Presenting the Street,” Rubin challenges conventional notions of city planning that mistakenly perceive the city as singular object that can be ‘fixed’ as such. He proposes an alternative way of examining the “street as a diverse social space” which exists in a “jarring, fragmented succession of images and encounters that characterize the lived experience of the modern city” through...

The Paradox of the Derive

by Daniel Nguyen
April 2, 2014 - 2:37pm

Guy Debord’s writings bring up psychological perceptions of the environment and manifests his ideas through his development of the derive. The derive itself is a paradox, combining subjective and objective methods of observation and interpretation. It emphasizes entrances and exits, something I find surprisingly astute since those are the things we look for most often in an urban setting....

The Crimes of the Flaneur, Tom McDonough

by Emily Bell
March 26, 2014 - 3:41pm

Emily Bell
The Crimes of the Flaneur, Tom McDonough

McDonough opens up for us a duality with which we all may be mutely aware in our own interactions in the city coming upon strangers in the street. The flaneur has assumed changing roles in the city according to normative models in the city. In particular, McDonough will identify the flaneur as both detective and as criminal...

Poe, The Man of the Crowd

by Benyameen Ghareeb
March 26, 2014 - 3:15pm

“Poe was one of the greatest technicians of modern literature.” (Benjamin, 42)

“Poe's famous tale 'The Man of the Crowd' is something like the X-ray picture of a detective story. In it, the drapery represented by crime has disappeared. The mere armature has remained: the pursuer, the crowd, and an unknown man who arranges his walk through London in such a way that he...

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Discussion Questions

art photography vs. visual sociology

by Sarah Smith
April 16, 2014 - 2:28pm

In reference to my reading response on the Becker reading this week, I bring this us:

a rating system for buildings and cities?

by Mun Hee Lee
April 8, 2014 - 7:15pm

The idea of understanding Urbanism as “plural experience and not a singular event” allows somewhat unfinished yet more accurate representation of reality; the observation of the cultural landscape and the personal and subjective narratives of the flaneur both become important tools to witness and express moments of interaction.

Derive as a prerequisite for design

by Benyameen Ghareeb
April 2, 2014 - 3:11pm

There has been a notable shift in the approach to planning from modernist thinking (Le Corbusier and those influenced by his thinking such as Robert Moses) to later approaches such as the Smithsons from Team 10 and today (New Urbanists for example) - the former approached urban interventions from above (a studio set up in a hotel suite thirty floors above the ground), whereas the latter...

Derive

by Adam Wagoner
April 2, 2014 - 3:04pm

The readings and assignment explore the interesting subject of the derive. I have to admit, I am skeptical to the value of this method for its practical applications to urban design. I did enjoy my derive as an extended "vacation" within the city, exploring places I would not have gone or taking routes for no reason.

What's the Situation?

by Peter Le
April 2, 2014 - 1:20pm

I his essay McDonough comments on Guy Debord's "The Naked City", a diagrammatic map showing the multitude of potential ambulatory connections between fragmentary parts of Paris. The fragments are parts of "localized space", cohesive realms with similar "atmospheres".

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Videos

Bill de Cossy, architect

by Elihu Rubin
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - 4:03pm

Bill de Cossy, legendary New Haven architect and protege of Paul Rudolph, relates a Crown Street story from the early 1960s.

Rob Greenberg, Crown Street maven

by Elihu Rubin
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - 4:01pm

“As a little kid, I navigated Crown Street, all the way up and down.” 

Puma Simone remembers . . .

by Elihu Rubin
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - 4:00pm

Puma remembers the Peoples’ Arts Collective.  Stella Blues, another favorite place.

Tyler talks Crown Street State of Mind

by Elihu Rubin
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - 3:58pm

Yale Art Studies reflect on Crown Street

by Elihu Rubin
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - 3:55pm

“It’s more honest.”  “Chapel sucks.”  “There’s a certain atmosphere … “ 

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Photography Series

Entries of 200 Crown

by Adam Wagoner
February 12, 2014 - 11:25am

People of Crown Street

by Peter Le
February 5, 2014 - 3:31pm

Colorful

by Hyeun Lee
February 5, 2014 - 3:26pm

Colors

snow*

by Junpei Okai
February 5, 2014 - 3:11pm

Snow is the detective that exposes urbanism. It filters the followers from the pathfinders. We see and feel it, yet it is gone in a moment.

Scales on Crown

by Emily Bell
February 5, 2014 - 2:20pm
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Diagrams and Maps

Social Use Diagram

by Elihu Rubin
March 10, 2014 - 12:20am

Cortez Crosby, Brittany Browne Hayes, and Chris Seifert developed this rendering of program across Crown Street in 2012. 

Color Code:  Grey-Vacant; Orange-Residential; Yellow-Institutional; Red-Restaurant; Brown-Nightlife/Entertainment/Bar; Dark Green-Parking;Light Green-Business; Turquoise-Retail

The diagram indicates four distinct zones of activity, with a connection drawn...

Depth of Field

by Emily Bell
February 26, 2014 - 6:02pm

Colorful Colors

by Hyeun Lee
February 26, 2014 - 3:31pm

on Crown

Visibility on Crown

by Junpei Okai
February 26, 2014 - 3:25pm

A mood map of Crown Street

by Mun Hee Lee
February 26, 2014 - 3:10pm
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Urban Dérive

From Fair Haven to New Haven: a Drift down Grand Avenue

by Anonymous (not verified)
April 4, 2014 - 5:15pm

by Tiffany Hockin and Stefan Thorsteinsson

Derive of Sounds

by Tyler Pertman
April 3, 2014 - 12:54pm

Friday Night on Crown Street provides a soundscape rich with experiences

Produced by Tyler Pertman and Amy Su

Nicholas Muraglia, a man made of happy accidents

by Daniel Nguyen
April 2, 2014 - 3:14pm

in between and above crown st

by Sarah Smith
April 2, 2014 - 3:07pm

Two Journeys. (Parking Lots of Crown Street)

by John-Thaddeus Keeley
April 2, 2014 - 2:54pm
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Crown Street Studies

Tours of Crown Street

by Violette de La Selle
May 3, 2014 - 4:58pm

A Narrative Script

by Teo Quintana and Violette de la Selle

Introduction

How to get to know Crown Street? Nine blocks long, this New Haven Street offers an impressive array of disparate conditions. Quietly residential at one end, nearly abandoned at the other, and bustling with various forms of commerce and nightlife...

Montgomery

by William Sheridan
May 3, 2014 - 3:39pm

A Narrative Script

A (Hungry) Walk Down Crown

by Aisha Pasha
May 3, 2014 - 3:33pm

A Narrative Script of Crown Street 

Skate Park Garage

by Ivan Farr
May 2, 2014 - 2:54pm
Urban Platform
 
New Haven is a city known for its historic planning, picturesque churches, famous parks, Gothic architecture, secret societies, pizza restaurants, and Yale University.  New Haven is also known for its parking garages.  
 
They’re huge.  They’re monolithic.  They’re...

Parking as Power

by Brandon Hall
May 2, 2014 - 1:54pm

Parking as Power: Cinegraphic Analysis of Crown St.

 
Crown Street is in constant dialog with its parking  infrastructures. As the mediator between the city and the highway, Crown Street must interface with both its urban as  well as service identity. The parking structures offer a frame of   reference but also offer a unique street presence in a nuanced and complex...
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