{"id":183,"date":"2014-05-09T15:15:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T19:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/space-place.info.yorku.ca\/?p=183"},"modified":"2015-04-13T15:15:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T15:15:45","slug":"deceptive-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"Cities and Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspective deceitful, and everything conceals something else”<\/div>\n
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Italo Calvino. 1978. Invisible Cities. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.<\/em><\/div>\n
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\u00a0“In this city there are Bulgarian mechanics, there are Eritrean accountants, Colombian caf\u00e9 owners, Latvian book publishers, Welsh roofers, Afghani dancers, Iranian mathematicians, Tamil cooks in Thai restaurants, Calabrese boys with Jamaican accents, Fushen deejays, Filipina-Saudi beauticians; Russian doctors changing tires, there are Romanian bill collectors, Cape Croker fishmongers, Japanese grocery clerks, French gas meter readers, German bakers, Haitian and Bengali taxi drivers with Irish dispatchers.<\/div>\n
Lives in the city are doubled, tripled, conjugated — women and men all trying to handle their own chain of events, trying to keep the story straight in their own heads. At times they catch themselves in sensational lies, embellishing or avoiding a nasty secret here and there, juggling the lines of causality, and before you know it, it’s impossible to tell one thread from another. In this city, like everywhere, people work, they eat, they drink, they have sex. But it’s hard not to wake up here without the certainty of misapprehension.”<\/div>\n
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Dionne Brand. 2004 What We All Long For. Toronto: Random House, Vintage Canada.<\/em><\/div>\n
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(image: David Fleck<\/a>)<\/em><\/div>\n
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