a social exchange :: reference

‘Cities demand that we move through them - arrival is only the beginning - but great cities also make us stop. It’s possible to think of the urban tangle of early morning commuting and the crowd of camera-clad visitors outside Buckingham Palace as part of the same affirmation of vitality… As much as the stop and start of buses and the arrival of commuter trains, it is the unceasing daily accumulation of these kind of encounters between people, the city and each other, superimposed on the same static grid of streets, that gives the city a sense of fluidity, of being ‘alive.’