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WHY YOU SHOULD DRIVE THE GRID
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Why are people prepared to pay so much more for an item of clothing or an accessory of its label? For me, the 20th-century French artist Marcel Duchamp shed more light than any fashion commentator. It was 1917 when he infamously scrawled the signatu the side of an upturned urinal, titled it Fountain , and submitted it for exhibition as Duchamp believed that once it was labeled as art, the urinal became art. Fountain rejected by the exhibition curators, but Duchamp’s theory that we value objects prim their label rather than their purpose became famous.
I had been trained to “read” the landscape by working on a historic building survey i Naugatuck Valley, a former industrial zone in Connecticut where the rivers once pow mills that eventually milled copper and gave rise to an ersatz leather called “naugah All summer long, I walked the towns of this valley, block by hot block, noting down distinguishing features of each building, classifying it by style, and then, based on information, guessing on the date. I noted where the rich people’s houses were, wher mill buildings had been placed, where the commercial streets ran, and how the orient of urban grids and buildings changed over time. By the end of the summer, I could figur the age of just about any building to within five years of its construction. Having arrived in Cincinnati, I bought the cheapest car I could find and spe driving the grid. The city where I lived was a different place from most in founded as a fort and trading depot on the Ohio River, it sat in a bowl of w a Preview like to think of as seven hillsYou're (as inReading Rome), but which are actually glacia Unlock full access with a free debris left over after the glaciers had scraped thetrial. terrain to the north into the we now associate with the Midwest. That made this a place apart, a river Download With Free Trial inward. I would leave this little bowl and rise in barely perceptible ramps on the highway up terraces that these long-ago geological and climatological events had left behind, b turning off one of the big roads that course through the grid on a diagonal. I would head Sign upPresident to vote on this Jefferson title one of the small towns and villages that dotted a landscape and Useful Not useful surveyors had imagined as the place for an American democracy. The Jeffersonian grid, as we call it today, consists of “sections,” each a m
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