This video is an essay on the grid of New York City, and it is part of a video essay series on different aspects of the city (another submission to this award addresses the Subway). The objective of the series to confront the socio-spatial qualities of the city: how architecture, urban design, and infrastructure interact with the social fabric. The quasifictional format is a dialogue between a narrator and a subtitled questioner. Methods are inspired by the traditions of experimental film.
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