A central purpose of the city is to network. In a neo-modern trend-sense this might mean building interconnected relationships between people, linking individuals into synapse-like patterns of information and favour-passing nodes. In a traditional sense, the idea of a network represents the demodularization of task, spreading knowledge and function across an ever-branching spread of links. Given the loss of a single node or link, the large network would survive and continue because it would still be supported by those other still remaining participants.

The city is a vastened network. It is grand in it’s simplicty, and marvelous in it’s complexity.

One wonders what nodes one might be linked to, man, machine, or otherwise.