Notes
- p.4 (top)
"To become lost is perhaps a rather rare experience" c.f. Lost
- p.6
observer "should play an active role in perceiving the world"
- p.11
maze learning and "east/west" boy
- p.11
sherpa who didn't realise that peaks seen from different directions were the same
- p.12
"seeing" animal in dense bush - similarly need to "see the hidden forms" in the cry
- p.21/22
"parallel" streets cross at Boston Common
- p.23
highways as barriers or paths - c.f. two roles of a line, to separate or join Gnosis and Geonosis
- p.41
LA "it's as if you were going somewhere for a long time and when you got there you discovered there was noting there after all"
- p.48
landmarks - are words (or archetypes) landmarks for concepts?
- p.54
gradients along paths including state of repair
- p.54
curvature noted only in relation to visual cues c.f. space syntax
- p.56/57
freeways magically link disparate areas with little sense of fit to overall city plan (ditto subway)
- p.65
edges as seams - disconnection vs. mutual visibility & accessibilty despite differentiation
- p.95-103
detailed advice for oaths, etc.
- p.128
Chinese compass directions rather than left-right (like Bali)
- p.129
Tikopia - seeward / landward not compass
- p.132
orientation by reflection of land on clouds - Arctic and South Seas