[Reader-list] Moscow Metro -Underground Palace Panoramas

[Shivam Vij]

In which case the Moscow subway in today's Russia must surely been
seen as an ironical symbol of a history that failed them.
S


On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:16:26 +0530, Punam Zutshi <pz at vsnl.net> wrote:
> The point surely is about Russian political history and an act of
> imagination and aesthetics within which the modern was visualised. And
> specifically in relation with the worlds that Zainab and you have been
> sharing with us, here was a
> fantastical counterpoint, both paradoxical and radical in its own historical
> moment.Does a genealogy of the modern and a comparative perspective on
> public spaces have no use? That the creation of spaces like these were
> undertaken by a Stalin and doubled as bomb shelters was an education in the
> experiments that the modern is constituted by.
> 
> Punam
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shivam Vij" <shivamvij at gmail.com>
> To: "Punam Zutshi" <pz at vsnl.net>
> Cc: <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 3:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Moscow Metro -Underground Palace Panoramas
> 
> > Have a look at some pictures of the Delhi Metro:
> > http://www.vij.com/archive/mind_the_gully.html
> >
> > The Delhi Metro looks lavish and luxurious enough as compared to the
> > state of public transportation otherwise in Delhi and much of urban
> > India. Thank you very much, but the palace-like look of the Moscow
> > subway belongs to a world that won't arrive here for the next fifty
> > years. I am told even some New York subway stations are equally
> > palatial. But what's the point? The New York subway has other
> > problems. Didn't I post an article on the list written by a New Yorker
> > who was embarrassed to see that Indians could make a better, faster,
> > more modern subway in much less money that New York plans to spend on
> > a new subway they want to build to replace the current subway, which
> > is now a century late. And the NY subway is also dirtier than the
> > Delhi Metro.
> >
> > S
> >
> 
> 


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