Bombay – Book of Phloems

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[ c 1 , 3 ] latent forests of Bombay

(Q2)A more fleshed out thought in relation to the latent forests of Bombay: During my last week in India in December 2019, I stood on my mother’s 7th floor balcony in the city of Pune watching grey hornbills, kingfishers, monkeys, and snakes traverse the housing society compound. On one side was the bustling Bombay-Bangalore highway, …

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[ c 1 , 1 ] the city is a latent forest

( Q1 – Quote 1 )Thinking of the city as a latent forest – Latency «shows up» as deferred action or as hidden potential. If he project is about imprinting the city with the forest, or rather the forest on the city, so that it might develop into one eventually – the forest is always …