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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #366 - Junction Conjunction
08.24.16
One or more persons during a certain period drop their usual motives
for movement and action, their relations, their work and leisure activities,
and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the
encounters they find there.
It's a bike ride.
Started by user nathansnider and user theroyalacademy.
It meets every Wednesday at 8:30pm
at California Donuts #21.
We ride at 9pm.
While we endeavor to return before the last red line trains (around midnight),
it is generally not possible. Please plan accordingly.
On this bike ride, you might expect:
- inconvenient passageways
- oblique strategies
- Oulipian constraints
- disorientation
- reorientation
- "cover" versions of other people's rides, performed with amateurish enthusiasm
- amateurish enthusiasm
- playgrounds, pool halls, bowling alleys, karaoke
- geocaching
- full moon picnics
- traffic median tea parties
- rivers that no longer exist
- smell tourism
- Couchwick v2.0
Furthermore:
- usually 20-35 miles
- usually some hills
- a medium pace (probably not for beginners; certainly not a hustle)
- few stops, short stops
- but we're not in a rush; we don't need to run every light
- victory donuts!
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This week:
Junction Conjunction
The form of the city takes shape at the confluence of our inheritance from the past and our aspirations for the future -- to preserve, erase, or improve. However, though there are of course exceptional moments of great will, rarely is it a matter of either/or clarity. The city's evolution is messy. There are few bold acts of preservation that keep buildings and neighborhoods meaningfully intact, even fewer of Haussmann-scale reimagining. It is most often a complicated both/and patchwork of conflicting ideas and objectives: design colliding with chance; economics intersecting with opportunity; intention meeting ambivalence.
This week on the ride we visit places of convergence, our route connecting points where earlier routes joined together. Generally form-poor, when compared to a building or monument, they can be just as history-rich, existing at an intersection of events and ambitions like any other place. Sites of literal transition, they are fitting avatars of the transitory.
(<20 miles; flat; some short unpaved sections, with maybe some walking; and maybe some educational content)
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Discuss
For example,
certain models of
one-man helicopters
currently being tested
by the US Army
will probably have spread
to the general public
within twenty years.
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