Archiving the City is an archive of urban experience, concerned with how researchers studying the sensations, perceptions, aesthetics and politics of living in cities today might expand their methods beyond traditional tools accepted in the social sciences. Archiving the City is a peek inside one researcher’s field notebook.

About the dissertation (Work In Progress)

I am writing a guidebook to thinking “experience” in “the city”, organized as a series of walking tours. A basic premise of this project is that the city itself is built in layers of time. Look at the crumbling walls in Tel Aviv, the scaffolding in New York; pass workers digging into the vast maze of sewers, pipelines and wiring under the ground in either city; or look at the buildings with their facades from different times, and imagine the constant movement, the rotation of occupancy and design: sense the how the city is built in layers of time. The city is full of pockets of time that one can fall into or out of just by walking around. To move through the city is to move through time itself.  So this is what the guidebook is for: learning how to fall into and out of different times and layers; how to recognize them; how to pay attention.

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