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

[Wayne Johnson]

In pre-WWII England it was virtually impossible for planners/urban
architects to make ANY changes in ANYTHING.    During the blitz, the black
humour amongst these guys was to refer to the bombing as something on the
order of the "Luftwaffe Renewal Agency."   Post WWII, things did indeed
change, not always for the better...as the horrid buildings built next to
St. Paul's Cathedral in London attest to.....uh, to  which the horrid
buildings next to St. Paul's attest.    Whew.

Wayne

-----Original Message-----
From: austin-ghetto-list-admin@pairlist.net
[mailto:austin-ghetto-list-admin@pairlist.net]On Behalf Of Carolyn
Garner Siscoe
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 1:35 PM
To: Michael Eisenstadt
Cc: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
Subject: Re: [Austin-ghetto-list] from tinkers to evers to chance


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