“We need the mass movements, we need people to get together and march, or even just stand in one place, not only for those in power to see what the people want, but for people who are decidedly not empowered… — Lauren Elkin Copy Share Image
“We get to know our cities on hoot, and when we leave, the topography shifts. We're no longer as surefooted. But maybe that's a good thing. It's just a question of looking, and of not hoping to see something else when we do. Maybe it's good to keep some distance from the things we know well, to always be slightly… — Lauren Elkin Copy Share
“We all have our own signals we're listening for, or trying not to hear.” — Lauren Elkin Copy Share Image
“What does our neighborhood say about us? What is the value of a neighborhood? Mine is a mirror of my past choices. Pick your… — Lauren Elkin Copy Share Image
“But flail your arms in a city, and you will come in contact with it, or, equally likely, with its inhabitants. We flail. We… — Lauren Elkin Copy Share Image
“We need the mass movements, we need people to get together and march, or even just stand in one place, not only for those… — Lauren Elkin Copy Share Image
“I walk because it confers- or restores- a feeling of placeness...I walk because, somehow, it's like reading. You're privy to these lives and conversations… — Lauren Elkin Copy Share Image
“Walking it mapping with your feet. It helps you piece a city together, connecting up neighborhoods that might otherwise have remained discrete entities, different… — Lauren Elkin Copy Share Image
“We want to make choices, and have some agency in getting lost, and getting found. We want to challenge the city, and decipher it,… — Lauren Elkin Copy Share Image
“Environments inhabit us,' Varda said. These places that we take into ourselves and make part of us, so that we made of all the… — Lauren Elkin Copy Share Image
