[Austin-ghetto-list] from tinkers to evers to chance

[Carolyn Garner Siscoe]

So, Michael from your email am I to conclude that Mohammed Atta was one
of the first city planners to be part of the 'deconstruction'
literary/philosophical movement in City Planning?

carolyn

Michael Eisenstadt wrote:

> Ewee one upped Roger in the Excitable Boy
> sweepstakes.
>
> as the price of oil plummeted 15%
>
> meanwhile Mohammed Atta whose masters in
> urban planning was accepted by his univ
> with the top grade of 1.0 often expressed his
> hatred of highrise architecture, such
> as public housing in Hambourg where he lived
> since the mid 90s and in his MA thesis
> which was on the redevelopment of a quaint
> section of Aleppo in Syria. He railed
> against modern highrise hotels there
> sullying the 'hood of old Aleppo.
>
> He needed help with his German for the
> thesis so he worked with a German woman
> over his manuscript for a long time. Late
> in the re-writing of it, he put in a quote
> from the Coar-ann in the front. He also
> met an attractive Palestinian woman also
> involved in city planning in Aleppo but
> he turned her down for a wife as too
> modern.
>
> So we can guess at the contents of his
> letter which he left in the white Nissan
> at Logan airport said to be dated 1996.
>
> yes believe it or not, the whole idear
> was dreamed up by Atta in 1996.
>
> so my original surmise that it was life
> imitating The Fountainhead novel and
> film by Ayn Rand where the architect
> blows up "his" building because they
> didnt follow his plans turns out to be
> correct.
>
> Mike "Nostradamus" Eisenstadt