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Show When and where does space exist? Are we talking about outer space where space ships travel. Are we talking about the space inside a house? The one thing we know is that space is Euclidian after Euclid's definitions of point-line-plane The word PLACE: If a thousand people stood in the middle of the sahara desert would that place constitute a town or a citjr? Is a place also a space how do we know? Only if a place has continumorphs properly juxtaposed is it a space - that's how we know. And human beings can survive only in varied space but not in pure abstraction which eventually deteriorates the nervous system leading to the fatal conclusion of life in nothingness. Abstract space down through the centuries has had its variety which is more desirable than the pure abstraction of the twentieth century. Lewis Mumford in his THE CITY IN HISTORY has no concept of space either: Thus even before the city is a fixed place of residence, it begins as a meeting place to which people periodically return: the magnet comes before the container. . . The first germ of the city then is the ceremonial meeting place that serves as the goal for pilgrimage: a site to which family groups are drawn back.... (19) The word "city" is where people are T guess regardless of the sheltering objects. Or is it just the "buildings" without the people. The truth is that the city is spacial not social. Or is it both? All of the above words refer to the box as the model of space they're all Euclidian references. -41- |