[Reader-list] The Nomadic City Appropriates the Street…

[Jeebesh]

dear all, Please do read this essay. extremely important that we think  
with solly about cities. warmly jeebesh

http://www.cluster.eu/the-nomadic-city-appropriates-the-street/

The Nomadic City Appropriates the Street…
…and disrupts its grid¹

Solomon Benjamin

‘Developmentalism’ is now a morbid zeal, mobilized to survey, to GIS,  
to digitize, to research, and colonize ‘Third World Cities.’ And in  
this zeal, lies the panoptic desire to turn the steel frame of the  
Nation State into The Grid and the Rule of Law, the Master Plan that  
poses the activist academic as an emancipator, speaking on behalf of  
the voiceless poor. And with this, a formalization of the Grid into a  
distinct street away from the city.