The Arrogance of Space
<p>We have a tendency to give cities human character traits when we describe them. It’s a <em>friendly </em>city. A <em>dynamic </em>city. A <em>boring</em> city. Perhaps then a city can be arrogant. Arrogant, for example, with it’s distribution of space.</p>
<p>In my work as an urban designer in over 100 cities around the world, I’ve become quite obsessed with the obscenely unbalanced distribution of space that I see everywhere I go. The nauseating arrogance of obscenely wide car lanes and the vehicles sailing back and forth in them like inebriated hippopotamuses.</p>
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