The city of Leonia refashions itself everyday […]. The fact is that street cleaners are
welcomed like angels, and their task of removing the residue of yesterday’s existence is
surrounded by a respectful silence, like a ritual that inspires devotion, perhaps only because
once things have been cast off nobody wants to have to think about them further.
Nobody wonders where, each day, they carry their load of refuse. Outside the city, surely; but
each year the city expands, and the street cleaners have to fall farther back. The bulk of the
outflow increases and the piles rise higher, become stratified, extend over a wider perimeter
[…] A fortress of indestructible leftovers surrounds Leonia, dominating it on every side, like a
chain of mountains.
Leonia´s rubbish little by little would invade the world if, from beyond the final crest of its
boundless rubbish heap, the street cleaners of other cities were not pressing, also pushing
mountains of refuse in front of themselves […]
welcomed like angels, and their task of removing the residue of yesterday’s existence is
surrounded by a respectful silence, like a ritual that inspires devotion, perhaps only because
once things have been cast off nobody wants to have to think about them further.
Nobody wonders where, each day, they carry their load of refuse. Outside the city, surely; but
each year the city expands, and the street cleaners have to fall farther back. The bulk of the
outflow increases and the piles rise higher, become stratified, extend over a wider perimeter
[…] A fortress of indestructible leftovers surrounds Leonia, dominating it on every side, like a
chain of mountains.
Leonia´s rubbish little by little would invade the world if, from beyond the final crest of its
boundless rubbish heap, the street cleaners of other cities were not pressing, also pushing
mountains of refuse in front of themselves […]
waste-scape
solid waste management and recycling opportunities, the urban challenge
mumbai / curitiba
| Continuous cities Italo Calvino, Invisible cities. |
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Advanced Seminar: Urban Nature and City Design Department of Urban Studies and
Planning at MIT Professor:
Anne Whiston Spirn, Student Project:
Maria Arquero de Alarcon marquero@gsd.harvard.edu
Planning at MIT Professor:
Anne Whiston Spirn, Student Project:
Maria Arquero de Alarcon marquero@gsd.harvard.edu