November 2009
2 posts
Reflecting on the Urbanity of Sesame Street: A...
This week marked an important birthday for television’s best known street; Sesame Street turned forty this week (… after enduring race riots, fiscal crisis, the crack epidemic, and gentrification).
While the distinct urban twinge of Sesame Street is not often a subject of focus, the show is in fact imagined to take place in New York, the famous green-doored house at 123 Sesame...
October 2009
2 posts
sowing some seeds
“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” From Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino