summary:
- managing waste is a way of managing people, dependent on people doing things and conceptualizing things in different ways
too much trash on the ground, source of disease and pestilence ->
- corbusier, towns built on piles - ground level of the town is raised 12-16 ft
- affect on treatment of ground for modernist architecture in general?
‘the environment around you makes you sick’ early 20th century -> sanitation
- keep america beautiful (not litering, not polluting etc.)
study of viruses and bacteria -> ‘the individual’s body and self-management’
industries agglomerate in mid-late 20th century -> larger concentration of landfills + u.s. resource and recovery act taxes local landfill companies
- more waste but far fewer landfills
politics
environmental justice movement
cultural thresholds
where the shopping carts go when they are disposed
going through bob dylan’s trash ->
- when is something your waste and when is it someone else’s or the wider world’s
- when someone enters a public space and leaves something behind
landfills and membranes/boundaries
*lateral office (collective of artists and planners) - the shapes that landfill morphologies take ->
?
bangalorian waste transportation in the city ->
- some bangalorians make money off the trash, sending it to recyling factories and other places ~ was this the way municipal goverment or companies work, or both?
black trash bags vs clear trash bags ->
- invsible vs visible
the mafia would put boodies in landfills ->
- a place of invisibility
dumps being places where people would get things like furniture and stuff, could take and leave things as they wanted to ->
- a porous place
questions:
discarded landfills? ->
- ‘discarded landfills become monuments’ how?
why self management of waste? ->
- how do people self-manage waste management
health of citizens in cities...? ->
- why was it that women’s organizations in early 20th century would champion refuse and waste management?
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