If a camel is a horse built by a committee, then most cities are camels: ungainly creatures that have evolved over many centuries. But a precious few are thoroughbreds, having sprung, Athena-like, from the mind of one man. Christopher Hawthorne takes the measure of the metropolis built from scratch. Condé Nast Traveler
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i'd prefer the camel, please.
i've always liked former-uky dean mohney's metaphor better: if a building, with all of it's variables, is like algebra, then we can think of a city as being like calculus: a series of functional relationships between multiple algebraic solutions.
he said it better.
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