| dc.description.abstract | The urban area, the heart and soul of a city;
the people its living breathing separately, uniquely
performing varied actions and activities with individual
intentions but still all manage to move as one. One
pulse coursing through the veins of the city, sustaining
it and allowing it to perform the many activities
associated with living organisms, growth, develop, heal
e.t.c. Without the life-source the city would eventually
wither and die.
The urban area engages my senses in an
uninhibited dance through spiraling clouds of
euphoria savoring every slight nuance, with a gift of
visual enchantment confronting you at every corner;
impossible for a single individual to detail each and
every unit of this marvelous environment. The thought
of a space within the urban environment that proves
so rich in the qualities of a city, its sounds playing like
a unique symphony creating its own rhythm each
reverberation unique to its own time and place that
might never be repeated in the same way for all of
eternity is a marvel on its own. The people, traversing,
mixing elaborately creating their own cadence, do I
dare say? Pulse moving as one but with each his/her
own individual goals in mind; create an animated
mosaic of life fervent in their cadence akin to a surreal,
almost mythical dance of life; resolute in an almost
hypnotic effect. Different races, cultures and ethnicities
intermingling; languages from far and wide all being
shared as different communities blend amongst one
another creating a unique and singular identity for
each individual not a member of a race, class or
gender but as a person. The smells which intricately
intertwine and blend to become a veritable cornucopia
of olfactory sensations that merge within the mind and
serve to form intense, vivid visual images of the urban
area ensuing in a raised pulse rate going as far as to
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invoke a physical response, a reaction so powerful,
so rich as to evoke emotion. This is my ideal urban
environment, my utopia, the dream for a future that is
my love of the urban land.
To honor this vital source of life to the heart of
Minneapolis /St. Paul a space designed specifically
to nurture the mind, soul and heart of the individual,
respecting each culture, age, style, tastes and
behaviors individually. Thus creating spaces allowing
people to congregate and socialize, thus developing
communities and ties among one another, turning the
cold harsh urban space into a home without sacrificing
the high speed, stylistic lifestyle that often define such
spaces.
Ultimately the city center proposed within this
thesis would be a statement of the people of the twin
cities, identifying their cultural history and the unified
future as a single community and as the primary and
only source of life to the city of Minneapolis/St. Paul. | en_US |
