Topographies:

Interactions between the Public and the Private City Vision (3)

Topographies: Another overview of the city?

Topography: the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features/surfaces of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations Topographies: Phillip’s interpretation of Nolli map and the interrelations among Jake, George and Phillip.

Starting Questions

Topographies as ways of showing the shifts and changes of relations, of entrance into different worlds. How are the three characters related to each other? Why is Phillip so interested in the map? What does Phillip strike out in his revision of his introduction to Nolli map?

Jake and Phillip

Jake's role in his relationship with Phillip: used to be his student (young) p.4 care-taker; acupuncture p.3; concerned with Phillip's physical conditions (valve surgery); worried about his getting weaker, spending too much time on the map 6; the dream, 6; bruises 8; feeling rejected Jake's love: loves to sketch him; still loves him after he stops looking at him for a month.

Jake and Phillip: the problems between them

Age difference: Phillip-- not let Jake see his body 8 Phillip’s responses to Jake’s youth– hur

t, envious, fatherly protective e.g. pp. 10-11

Jake’s responses: p. 17, feeling disgusted sometimes.

Memories: keep Jake faithful to Phillip pp. 15, 17 “It is beautiful, I’ll give him that.” p. 14

George in relation to Phillip and Jake

George, a lonely old man (p. 7), envious and contemptuous of Jake’s youth. young, a pretty boy p. 5 so young, so unsophisticated p. 16

G. and Phillip: needs Phillip's help in the Legislature Restoration bid. Being bossed around by P. (p. 9) In-between: tries to speak for Jake p. 4; for Phillip 8; Changes his views about Jake 13; his discussion with Jake, gives him an idea, but also antagonize him and Phillip 13

Jake’s life and choice

refuses being fathered; (The first nearly kills me.) mother going out on different dates. my dad was a construction worker; his response to Phillip’s jealousy and George’s response: p. 19 –hauled off and deck (punch) him, or show that he’s “marked.”

Nolli map

The studies of 18th century Rome by Giovanni Battista Nolli are an unique perspective revealing the intimate boundaries of public and private space within the city. The visual 'footprint' is defined by not only streets and pathways, but also by lobbies, courts, and interior public spaces of buildings. (source; Phillip’s account p. 18)

Phillip’s interpretation of the map

The city shown "for the first time as a coherent, living body" (3). reality beneath the map (5) traces of the past: The Circus Maximus the city: eternal renewal pp. 10-11 The past vs. the present p. 8-9 we lack great monuments; “enter the city”: 12; 14

Phillip’s interpretation of the map: self-involvement

the city’s eternal renewal his immortality p. 10 his self-projections: putto (pp. 5, 7) what he strikes out: description/populist intention pp. 1-2. notes on the individuals p. 3 what lies beneath the visible: map // one's o

wn body p. 5 comparison to the present 5, (an emotional res

ponse) Another emotional response about discovering the city 14

Reference to himself as a young student 9 Reference to his own body 16

Nolli map

source

The Circus Maximus

Putto p. 5

Putto p. 7