Le Sette Parcheggi di Stockport
Significant
public investment in tarmac continues to satisfy the highways lobby with its
lazy preference for the privacy, isolation and immediacy offered by the car.
Its cathedrals are the multi-storeys, to which supplicant drivers are daily
drawn from their suburban residences. These acts of ritual experience turn
multi-storeys into machines for urban decline, accelerating the processes of
planning blight, suburban sprawl and climate change. Any town building highway
infrastructure on this scale has given up on the environment. In the town which
aspires to be little more than a vehicle gyratory, the multi-storey becomes
destination, a civic landmark with monumental status.
 This
drawing re-imagines Le Sette Chiese as Le Sette Parcheggi: the 7 great multi-storeys
of Stockport. Exhibited Stockport Art Gallery 2017.
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