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Showing posts with label David Byrne. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Byrne. Show all posts
Monday, November 23, 2009
Talking Heads on wheels
I just saw on Planetizen (http://www.planetizen.com/books/2010) The Top 10 books on urbanism. One was a really unexpected title: David Byrne's Bicycle Diaries. Whadda ya know? The former Talking Heads lead singer cycles thru a number of cities, sometimes with planners and politicians, musing on the built environment. They quote him, cycling thru Berlin, pondering on the non-human scale and utopian atmosphere of the city. Something else
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Berlin,
David Byrne,
Talking Heads,
urbanism
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