On Infrastructure 1

As the fragile lanky jet gently bows at its destination gate, the sounds of buckles opening runs through the cabin. A never ending stream of people rattle over the thin floors of the tubular structure that, like an umbilical cord, connects it to the terminal building . I pass the controllers behind their glass doors and make my way downstairs to a cold and deserted train station. Monitors and billboards, distant rumbles of oncoming trains. The doors come apart and the journey goes on. Green colors slowly merge into shades of grey and brown. Slowly the train does its zigzag approach to the station. I briskly walk up the stairs, and there it is, the city.

An investigation of the feeding patterns of the city must start with its membranes. At some point the the train tracks or freeways merge into the city structure. Is this its boundaries or is it were the apartment towers transforms into single houses? Where urban becomes sub-urban? Perhaps the exit/start of the city may actually happen in the middle of it?

At the point of contact between the large veins of infrastructure, like freeways or railroads, something happens. There is a transition of speeds. From the slow walking pace of the city streets to the high speed thoroughfare of the train with its destination anywhere. In terms of city planning, the concern is usually the never ending physical spread of the suburbs. Yet, perhaps it is also valid to investigate the points where the experiential transition is carried out. To be continued...

an image from the veins of the city

test

just a first test to se how this goes...