Thoroughfare: A place whose only meaning is provided by the movement of people through it.
Parallax: Parallax is the name for the occurrence of a change in location effecting perception. It is when one location of viewing causes you to visually perceive something differently than you would from another viewpoint.
Gizmo: A device that allows for portable technology. The ability to transport technology is the ability to transport place.
“Back at my window, the palimpsest of a new city flaunts its hypertextuality in black and light; its mental map of diverse subjectives rarely operates while one is on foot, a predicament that hints at the possibility of a new visibility, a new field with emergent, unexpected megashapes newly apprehensible but only at vastly different scales of motion.” (Lerup, Stim and Dross, 25)
“The center is a thoroughfare, i.e., an indifferent place, with no other identity than the one conferred on it by the passersby, a nonplace that exists only by the experience of time and motion that the stroller may make of it.” (Bois, A Picturesque Stroll Around Clara-Clara, 50)
“True sons of Archimedes, the Americans have gone one better than the old granddaddy of mechanics. To move the earth he required a lever long enough and somewhere to rest it--a gizmo and an infrastructure--but the great American gizmo can get by without any infrastructure. Had it needed one, it would never have won the West or opened up the transcontinental trails.” (Banham, The Great Gizmo, 110)
Movement and perception are intricately tied to one another. Whether it is the way in which moving around an object changes oneʼs perception of it, that moving through a place provides a different perception than a stationary view would provide, or the ability to transport a portable place, movement has a great influence over the ways we perceive things of a large range of scales. Furthermore, the rate of motion exerts further influence over these perceptions.