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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Museum with a view
Impressions on the Panorama of New York @ Queens Museum of Art Arriving at the Queens Museum of Art (for the first time) I’ve realized how different it looks from museums in Manhattan. There was no coat check. Instead there … Continue reading
Early politics in New Amsterdam
Russell Shorto Island at the Center of the World In early 17th century, Manhattan was not a village anymore. fourty five thousands people lived on the island. In the beginning the cohabitation between natives and settlers went well. Certainly because they depended on the natives’ knowledge of … Continue reading
How it all began…
How can one imagine that New York was once a city with a beaver on its seal? Anyone living in the 21st century has to put-up a very different mindset to try to understand what was happening on the island … Continue reading
Mannahatta/Manhattan
The Mannahatta Project is one of the best projects about geography and cities that was ever conceived. It is visually shocking and fascinating. It is such a dramatical difference between NYC 400 years ago and now, that the contemporary population the the island … Continue reading
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