Man on Wire

Man on Wire.
characters- Philippe, Jean-louis, Annie, Jean-Francois, David "Donald", Alan "Albert", Mark "the Austrialian", Barry Greenhouse "The Inside Man", Jim Moore.

Beginning scene - World Trade Center blueprint.

-At the age of 17, Philippe was already wirewalking and saw a picture of the Twin Towers and suddenly have a desire to want it.
-Philippe walked on wires at the Notres Dane Church.
-Philippe walked on wires at Sydney then got arrested.
-As the Towers were being built, Philippe planned out his dream and figure it would be possible for him walk on the wires across the twin towers.
-Philippe traveled back and forth many times and investigate the towers. He wants to know every single details about the towers so that he can get into it.
-Philippe then started spying and record data. He met Barry Greenhouse and recoginize him as a street performer.
-Philippe told his idea to his friends and one by one, they come together for the plan.
-They practiced how to get wires across the towers. Philippe practiced on wires for the big day.
-They stuck into the towers using fake IDs. They got to the roof and stood there for hours because of guards until morning.
-They got the wires across the towers and there , Philippe performed. He then got arrested but got no charge if he agreed to the conditions.

Man on Wire

- As Philippe is getting ready, Nixon addressing Watergate scandal in the forefront of the shot.
-“Getting ready to die, to live.” – Jean-Louis Blondeau
- He felt the towers had been built for him to conquer
- against the law but not wicked or mean
- thought of it as a dream
- gives magic to the public
- “If I die, what a beautiful death, to die in the exercise of your passion.” – Philippe Petit
- Shot of The American flags rising at the end of the construction of the Towers
- “Now it’s impossible, that’s for sure, so let’s start working” – Jean-Louis Blondeau
-“Why did you do this, why?” Why= The American question, can’t just allow something to be magically nonsensical
- Americans would ask a practical question about an impractical event.
- was charged with “trespassing, disorderly conduct” by agreeing to do interviews and shows
- He had an affair with a strange woman after he got out of the psych. evaluation. Described it as “Please of the flesh, how disgusting, but how beautiful too.” Ambiguity of the entire circumstance.
- “Our relationship was meant to end here, and it was beautiful that way.” - Annie Allix talking about her break-up with Philippe following his completion of walking across the towers.

Man On Wire

The film Man On Wire is about a man's dream to tightrope walk across the Twin Towers. The film shows his history of tightrope walking as a young kid and follows through his practice and other major tightrope walks he accomplished throughout his life. He felt like the Towers belonged to him ever since he first saw a magazine article about the Towers being built. He knew he had to follow his destiny to reach this goal, even if it meant getting arrested, or worse, death. The man makes some powerful points throughout the film saying, "It's a wonderful thing to die in the exercise of your passion." Walking across the Twin Towers felt to him and his accomplices like a work of art. After viewing the walk there is no doubt that what he did was a beautiful work of art and meant something more than just a silly tightrope walk across two elevated spaces.

-Tyler Lucchese

Civic Centers

http://www.pps.org/civic_centers/info/civic_centers_approach

I found this link from the Project for Public Spaces website. It is about how civic centers, like libraries and government buildings can be diverse areas for cultural and social gathering instead of just buildings. This can help with our essay assignment in a few different ways. The points and statements about public libraries and court buildings can be applied to buildings on Temple's campus. Where we eat, where we work, and where we learn can and should be more than just places we go to.

Green Development in High-Transit, Urban Area

I chose this website because it is an example of one of the many efforts that organizations have made toward revitalization of city homes. It speaks specific about revitalization of city homes in high transit areas, which North Philadelphia falls under the category of. This article discusses the effort to revitalize urban homes, for low income families, that are "Green." Green development is an important goal for these development organizations because it takes the restoration process to the next step by utilizing the materials we have today. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/10/business/10rose.html?_r=3&oref=slogin%oref=slogin

Creating Urban Parks

http://www.pps.org/parks_plazas_squares/info/whyneed/newvisions/CreatingUrbanParks

http://www.pps.org/parks_plazas_squares/info/parks_plazas_squares_articles/squares_principles

My essay will propose a modification of the elevated balcony which connects Gladfelter and Anderson Halls. The ideas from these two websites will support my argument that an increase in the attractiveness of this space will increase the usage of this space, and thereby encourage more students to enroll at Temple University, and thus increase revenue from tuition, which is the primary goal behind all campus beautification projects at Temple U.


http://wildgreenyonder.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/greening-the-urban-campus.pdf

I am considering a proposal that the space be constructed as an education center which promotes the values of the global Green Initiative, which would help establish Temple U as a leader in the "green" movement. This article is a study that was done at NYU (whose campus resembles that of Temple's) to determine the financial benefits of "greening" the campus at NYU.

Classrooms of the Future: Thinking Out of the Box

http://schoolstudio.engr.wisc.edu/futureclassrooms.html
This website, I believe can be a good secondary source for the essay. It provides information about the new standard design for future classroom. The author talks about several examples of today classrooms and what are the problems, and the ways they are thinking of improving it. This website can be useful for anyone, who plans to do the essay about classroom in either Anderson Hall or any of the other buildings.
The second website interest me as it talks about a new style of design that classroom can be improve for both living and learning.
http://www.designshare.com/index.php/archives/901

Study areas

This website is a site that gives ideas of other students in different colleges and what they would like or expect in there study area . The reason I choose this website is because it gives you a better understanding about what a student is looking for and how students feel more comfortable. http://www.usyd.edu.au/courses/?uos=1&uos_sef_id=ARCH9062_Urban_Design___Ideas_and_Methods_636

Architecture

http://home.worldcom.ch/~negenter/

This is a good website to use as a secondary source for the "alternate design of a space" essay.It focuses on "implosion" which explains ideas on "the human condition and the human past".This link will be helpful because it provides articles, terms and essays on humanities, cognitive behavior to space, and theories that could help support our ideas and arguments in our essays.

International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism

http://www.intbau.org/

I chose this site as a link for a secondary source for my paper because this site covers many ideas of how we can build more efficiently in the future. From the information found on the website, I will be able to use the ideas of more efficient architecture in my quest to redesign the plaza located on the corner of Cecil B. Moore Ave and Broad Street. The site also provides many academic articles which provide useful information on the restoration of space. 

New Urbanism

http://www.newurbanism.org/

New Urbanism provides ways for people who live in urban areas to keep their impact on the environment to a minimum. It provides solutions to decrease global warming, to counter peak oil, and deal with climate change. This website explains that by creating urban areas with more interconnecting streets and more narrow roads that trafic will disperse and people will find walking much more feasible. The overall goal of New Urbanism is to create areas that enrich, uplift, and inspire the human spirit and intern the quality of life in areas will grow. Mixing in green transportation and energy efficient technologies the area will lessen its impact on the environment. I think this website is a good concept but will be hard to integrate in large cities like Philadelphia. New Urbanism requires too much change for large cities to be able to accomplish and is likely smaller cities will get a better results

Promoting Affordable Housing near Transit

Concerned by the area down Anderson Hall that connects our campus with the train station, I decided the topic of my essay will be “the process of gentrification.” Here I found a useful website directed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Human Development and the United States Department of Transportation. Both entities provide in their page an organized and well- constructed project that intends to create livable communities in proximity to transit. This report includes interesting strategies and viable actions for funding affordable housing near a train station. It also enounces possible financial incentives that one might want to consider when running the task.


The link is http://www.fta.dot.gov/documents/FTA-HUD_Action_Plan_--__Report_to_Congress_2008.pdf

By: Paola Beltran

Place and Space- For Real

http://home.klis.com/~chebogue/p.amBio.html

I found the link for this website on the Research on Place and Space website. This website talks about BioRegionalism which talks about how people move into certain areas and how they develop. It's interesting because goes into some detail about how and why people move into certain spaces as far as how accommodating those areas are geographically and economically. Es muy bueno.

Ethnophysiography

The Ethnophysiography Project

The new term 'ethnophysiography' is one to describe the study of natural land forms, from a global perspective. A team of researchers from the Ethnophysiography Project are determined to show the differences between bodies of water or mountains, much like the differences between different plants and animals. The point is to find out whether these land forms have a similar significance between our culture and other cultures.
If you go to the 'publications' section of the website, there are a couple articles that may help you write your essay. They reinforce the fact that while studying an enviroment we are not too familiar with, we need to study it from the perspective of the environment's inhabitants.

http://virtualsociety.sbs.ox.ac.uk/projects/robins.htm

This article discusses the concept of a virtural univeristy. This can be an interesting secondary source because as you think about changing your space, you can think about what would happen if that space was gone all together, and replaced by the virtural relm, would that be better or worse for students.

Outdoor Retail Spaces

www.openair.org

If you are choosing to write about changing a public space on Temple's campus to a Outdoor market for Essay 2, this website is the perfect place for you to get ideas from. On this site there is information about how well outdoor markets are doing in different cities around the world. There is also information about a proposed market in St. Louis, Missouri. The ideas for this market in St. Louis are from college students at Washington University.

Noah Temple - Blog Assignment 2 - Analytical Reading and Writing

http://www.clf.org/
This website is for the conservation law foundation and seems like a really good place to look for articles on green building, which I think is going to be the main focus on my space piece. It will also help me find the right angle to come from with my essay based of what other people are writing about. In other words, I can tackle environmental design issues that are realistic and relevant in today's world.

http://www3.sympatico.ca/skrepostman/envpsych_home.html

This second web site is very interesting to me because it has to do with an environment's effect on the conscious and the subconscious. I will use ideas from this site to also plan the design of my space to make the area the most creatively stimulating it can be.

Building the Vision

http://www.pps.org/info/services/our_approach/building_the_vision

This segment of the pps.org website deals with how you can make your ideas and visions of your place a reality. This informs you of how you can get your community involved in local projects. this may be helpful for my project of looking at Temple's bell tower. Just as when you are designing any public place, you need to find a way to execute and fund your ideas.

Subway

http://apta.com/

I decided that for the project I wanted to use the Subway stop at Susquehannah. I found this wesite and it was particularly helpful because it had many links that led to the various services this public transportation organization offered. It gave me some great ideas to use for the stop.

Feng Shui in Business

http://www.fengshui-consultants.co.uk/feng_shui_in_business.htm 

This website illustrates, in some detail, how a business can thrive within an area, based, in large part, on Feng Shui.  Feng Shui is the art of managing a space and place, to create and harness the energies of the universe.  It offers a variety of examples of the numerous things one company can do to excellerate their business dealings.