The art of the Japanese manhole cover. More in Drainspotting.
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The simplest and most radical thing that Ridley Scott did with Blade Runner was to put urban archeology in the frame. It hadn’t been obvious to mainstream American science fiction that cities are like compost heaps — just layers and layers of stuff. In cities, the past and the present and the future can all be totally adjacent. In Europe, that’s just life — it’s not science fiction, it’s not fantasy. But in American science fiction, the city in the future was always brand-new, every square inch of it.
William Gibson, on Blade Runner
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If you’re someone who can’t drive, like I can’t, you find a lot of American cities are not just difficult, but really quite strange.
China Miéville in an interview with BLDGBLOG, Unsolving the City. (via blech)
I remember the day I realized that a friend who grew up in Brooklyn not only didn’t have a driver’s license, but didn’t know how to drive at all, and probably never would.
Surprise, tinged by envy, followed by a moment of seeing the world in a different way.
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