The first picture in the collage below is taken at the corner of Independence Square and Duncan Street, Port of Spain. The second was taken at the top if Nelson Street by the East Dry River. The first in is abandoned bank and the second well it's actually functional.
Planners may be blamed for gaudy, tacky and deteriorating building as S. Izenour 1972 suggests. But maybe these buildings are here because for ordinary people it is a part of their culture or history of the city. Hall and Barrett, 2012 states these phantasmagoric landscapes are typically found away from the centres if cities where the pace of urban change is slower and it's completeness less certain. There are a lot of these landscapes in the city.
The Following Link is a PDF document on Canada Phantamogoric Landscapes and shows their Port containers as well as other buildings which are deteriorating.
The Following Link is a PDF document on Canada Phantamogoric Landscapes and shows their Port containers as well as other buildings which are deteriorating.
What is phantasmagoria and what does it have to do with cities?
ReplyDeleteNice photos -- can you tell us why the bank is abandoned, and the other structure is functional?-- what's going on with the city?
Nice pair of pics.