Castleford Project & Place Review of Art & Architecture in the Project David Barrie, May 2005 “The city in its totality and beauty is made up of numerous different moments of formation; the unity of these moments is the urban unity as a whole.” – Architect Aldo Rossi, 1966 “Passaic seems full of ‘holes’ compared to New York City…monumental vacancies that define the memory-traces of an abandoned set of futures.” – Artist Robert Smithson, 1967 1
Mid-project review of architectural design, art and citizen participation features of a project revitalizing the public realm of a former coal mining town in Yorkshire, England, May 2005,
