Tag: new york
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Choosing your city
Heard in the Amsterdam Stadsschouwburg on 20 August 2016: There he was, Philip Glass (1937), the great American composer and pianist, speaking about his autobiography, ‘’Words without Music’, and also playing a piece of his work (‘Choosing Life’ from ‘’The Hours’) on the piano, in the Stadsschouwburg in Amsterdam. Harpist Lavinia Meijer and pianist Feico…
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Back-to-the-city movement
Read in ‘The New York Nobody Knows’ (2013) of William Helmreich: On 12 May 2016 Richard Florida wrote an article in Citylab on a new report of the NYU’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy on gentrification in the Big Apple. The researchers divided 55 New York City neighborhoods into three categories: gentrifying,…
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Steinway als innovator
Geleerd van Frenk Bekkers tijdens masterclass New York 2015: Een van de opwindendste fasen in de masterclass New York City 2015 was de ontdekking van de oorsprong van het stedelijke tech-ecosysteem van Long Island City, grofweg het gebied in Queens op een mijl afstand van Roosevelt Island, waar de campus van Cornell-Tech op dit…
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Postmetropolitan University
Read in De Omslag of 2015:
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Immigrant city
Seen at the IDFA, Amsterdam, on 29 November 2015: ‘In Jackson Heighs’, the new documentary of Frederic Wiseman, opens with muslims praying in mosques, garages, sheds. Welcome to Queens, New York. On the last day of the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2015 I went to see the three-hour movie in a cinema at the…
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The future
Read in ‘Future City’ (1973) of Roger Elwood (editor): Today I will give a lecture at the conference for teachers in geography of the Royal Dutch Geographical Society (KNAG) in Ede, the Netherlands. Subject: the future. Some 800 teachers will be there. Where to begin? How to end my story? For inspiration, I reread ‘Future…
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The end of things-as-known
Read in ‘Mr. Sammler’s Planet’ (1970) of Saul Bellow: Saul Bellow’s ‘Mr. Sammler’s Planet’, published in 1970, is a must read. Mr. Sammler, a survivor of the Holocaust and an intellectual, is the hero of the novel. He lives in New York. His age: seventy-something. Every day he takes the bus from his apartment on…
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Interdependence
Read in ‘Building Gotham’ (2003) of Keith Revell: We met at Penn Station, New York. From there we would take the train to Boston. He had the tickets. The station, dating from the sixties, looked like Dante’s Inferno, but then as if you’re in a science-fiction movie, from the Jetsons, a world deep under the…
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Urban university walk
Seen and heard on 20 October 2015 at Morningside Heights, NYC: The weather, that day, was excellent. His walk started at the old campus site. Then he took us eastward, to the rim of the heights, showing us West Harlem deep down below. Wonderful view! John Reddick is from Yale, where he studied history…