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Stephen Elliott IDC 4001H March 11 2014 I stand motionless at the median, subsumed by a shadow colossal. Under the cooling gaze of steel girders; the brash indifference of rusting rivets, I feel infinitesimally meaningless. Insignificant. I am but a flake of oxidation cast from the highest point of the empire state. Each day I […]
Stephen Elliott IDC 4001H March 4th, 2014 The story of Dutch Manhattan, which I’ve known as a string of myths and names without faces, came to me as no real surprise. Like a bullish investment, the Dutch poured out their coin purses to purchase a plot of land that held the seeds for the future […]
Stephen Elliott IDC 4001H Sustainable development has long been an abstruse, esoteric concept that has less cohesion than the mud in Sherman Creek. It is a relatively new field of interdisciplinary studies involving principles of economics, an understanding of sociology, theories of urban planning, and a hefty dose of idealism to tie it all together. […]
Stephen Elliott IDC 4001H A few months ago, I sat down on a train ride home in the early afternoon. The friend with whom I’d been returning to Long Island, was making a joke out of my scratchy beard, insisting I looked homeless. Beside us sat an elegant German woman, maybe thirty years of age, […]
Stephen Elliott IDC 4001H To paraphrase someone much smarter than me, history without context is just a story. It’s easy to crawl through the alcoves and alleyways of New York without giving a moment’s breath to the past you step on. Each cobble, each brick has centuries of stories to tell, and yet we hardly […]
Stephen Elliott IDC Blog Post 1 What Marx said of Modernism, as “showing signs of decay far surpassing the horrors of the latter times of the Roman Empire”, is the common yet woefully frayed thread between Beck and Berman. In both pieces there is an inherent assumption that the modern world is a “maelstrom” which […]
