Why the atlas of invisible spaces?

• to allow people to see the heterogeneity and layering of city ground in positive terms

• to reveal phenomena

• Hurricane Sandy + a collective fear of water

• City nature is so important because there’s so little “nature” - So little untouched nature - excerpts. City nature is beneath the radar/threshold of perception as it stands now. It just looks like little bits of fragments/leftover nature. Even a street tree doesn’t seem like nature - so how does city nature become an actor? How does it get mobilized to be? How do we become aware and attuned to the fact that light comes from all directions [LP brother comment photo]- something that doesn’t happen in “nature” nature? Also: water stays on hard surfaces longer than it stays on fields, meadows, streams. Wind is more/stronger around tall buildings, which increase the speed of wind at their base. They are in motion - photos show that city nature exists, that it can be beautiful, and they show how city nature works. How to get the brain to see that it is - that it’s phenomena, something you can notice. That something unique happens as you turn a corner, because of the wind, light, water, size of the buildings, and the reflectivity of the ground that you don’t see outside the city.