#city & other getaways

…#CityMOOC fodder from the mbx works on multiple levels: place, city, even #rhizo14, although that could take some 'splainin to connect. Pinterest's label,"ideas for a long weekend getaway" is not even on the list since I hardly ever "get away" unless I can do virtually -- and that is just about every day, 

Rhizomatic connects here because a) it describes my social media network explorations, b) the interests they connect, and c) may (as Michael Melcher said about the metaphor) be another, better organizing metaphor for both networks and cities. Searching "rhizome +city" turns up intriguing results like the Urban Rhizome or the Rhizome Collective -- others too. Going on 15 years after, and I'm still collecting spatial metaphors to "organize" (ha!) and imagine/visualize cityspace: rhizome joins — consolidates — palimpsest and labyrinth, but counters quincunx (perhaps as anti- or un- in a Greimas schematic)

City escape boards to follow

where is home?

A perennial question and quest for the place-sensitive person considering places along way. Not just where home is but what as well. Why are some of us more obsessed with the question than others? Are the homeless minds looking for homes more sensitive to place than the rooted for whom places are eternally divided into home and elsewhere, alien, not home?

Although the blog mission is to explore specific places, "homeness" (not necessarily the same as heimlich but related) goes the why of the matter. The following is reposted from the Bookforum blog. More than a few take on the the question of home, others alterity and manufactured roots.