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  • But it achieved something that is intellectually very important: making Amman realize its own "cityness".

    360east | design, media, technology 2009

  • So looking at all this, one can be rabidly pro density pro transit pro walking pro biking and pro cityness and look at this road diet and say

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  • I find it hard to see how the cityness of cities essentially involves their symbolic character anymore than the economyness of economies.

    Larval Subjects . 2009

  • The point here is that the cityness of a city, while requiring all the bodies referenced by Deontologist in discussing the machinic dimensions of cities, nonetheless requires the plane of expression and collective assemblages of enunciation to exist.

    Larval Subjects . 2009

  • In a manner similar to fictional entities, I contend that the cityness of a city consists not simply in the material entities (buildings, roads, telephone lines, water supply, etc.), but also in these strange symbolic entities.

    Larval Subjects . 2009

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