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All Over the Map: Writing on Buildings and Cities by Michael Sorkin

In his inaugural lecture at Cambridge, the poet A E Housman pointed out that a boy who makes mud pies also turns himself into a little lord of creation. His scooping and scraping form “a small world out of a small chaos”, and once finished he can “behold the works of his hands” and pronounce it “pretty good”.

Recent cities created online include Fun Ville as well as more earnest enterprises such as Wilsonville, but even the jolliest of such places cannot disguise the fact that they have a population of precisely one. They offer an escape from the loneliness of city life while simultaneously magnifying it to gigantic proportions.

If the skyline of New York has been constructed “in the image of a bar graph”, as Sorkin suggests, then Ground Zero quickly grew to resemble a huge barograph, one that could be used to gauge the pressures brought to bear on it at different times by those who wanted the site to be turned into a memorial garden, or a replica of the original twin towers (with sturdier construction and better fire escapes), or nothing at all – the most radical suggestion being that it should be left exactly as it was, a rip in the urban fabric that would accurately represent an open wound in the American psyche.

Sorkin’s preference, which he championed in the face of the winning proposal by “starchitect” Daniel Libeskind, was to create a large, empty square in which freedom could be expressed by the simple means of human movement and assembly. New York would renew itself by returning to the original function of a city, a way of bringing people together in an ever-changing community.

In a place where real estate values force buildings to sprawl upwards rather than outwards, such a proposal was doomed from the start, but it accurately suggests some of Sorkin’s key architectural principles. Buildings should not imprison people but liberate them. The architect’s task, to create an environment in which we live, is unavoidably bound up with how we should live.

FREE Eye Exam at Wilsonville Family Fun Center – GreenPosting

To help gear up for the school year, on Saturday July 30th from 11-5pm, Binyon’s now Becoming Visionworks®and Transitions Optical will team up to bring eye health education to Portland area children and their families. 

Complimentary vision screenings will be provided for children and free Mini Golf, games and activities with Radio Disney and much more will be offered for the entire family – all to reinforce the importance of healthy, quality vision in our daily lives. It is estimated that 80% of what a child learns is visual.  With an average one in four children having an undetected vision problem that can interfere with their ability to learn, proper eyecare and eyewear is critical to their performance inside the classroom and in their everyday lives.

Visionworks and Transitions Optical are committed to educating consumers about eye health and will deliver on this commitment by providing Portland area families with a unique opportunity for children to receive eye screenings, education, special offers and more to help prepare them for the school year and begin to develop lifelong healthy vision habits, including the importance of scheduling regular visits to the eye doctor for a comprehensive exam.

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Oregon, The Beaver State

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Oregon, The claim of the United States to Oregon, as stated in the letters of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun and the Hon. J. Buchanan to the Hon. R. Pakenham, with an appendix containing the counter statement of Mr. Pakenham to the American secretaries of states. And a map showing the boundary line proposed by each party

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