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Author - Michel de Certeau
Quotes by : Michel de Certeau
architecture
To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place,....
city
It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners',....
109
Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated....
reading
Reading thus introduces an "art" which is anything but passive.
city
The same is true of stories and legends that haunt urban space like superfluous or additional inhabitants.....
time
Finally, the functionalist organization, by privileging progress (i.e. time), causes the condition of....
skyline
The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition....
103
To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper. The....
aristotle
When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself....
walking
They become liberated spaces that can be occupied. A rich indetermination gives them, by means of a semantic....
107
what does travel ultimately produce if it is not, by a sort of reversal, 'an exploration of the deserted....
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