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The City (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the future will first stretch out non-urban like Los Angeles, then sink into the ground as pure infrastructure bathed in artificial light.

The City (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠no longer reproduced by resemblance or representation; it is remade from a sort of genetic code and an accumulated cybernetic memory, indefinitely repeatable.

The City (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exist and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

The City (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠distinguished by the catastrophic forms it presupposes and which are a vital part of its essential charm. New york is king kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering inferno. Los angeles is the horizontal fault, california breaking off and sliding into the pacific: Earthquake.

The City (n.) , ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in years to come, will stretch out horizontally and will be non-urban (a la Los Angeles). After that, it will bury itself in the ground and will no longer have a name. Everything will become infrastructure bathed in artificial light and energy. The brilliant superstructure, the crazy verticality will have disappeared.