To be surrounded by the concrete towers and glinting glass that make up a city is a glamorous thing but suffocating by nature in its solidity, absoluteness, and rectangularity of shape. Trees of a forest, on the other hand, are in a way liquid because they bend, shapeshift in wind, get cut down, with as…
Seoul is very metropolitan: webbed with highways, illuminated at night, a definition of urban. Forty-story office buildings, subway network underground, bus network overground, Ubers and lightning-fast delivery and robot waiters and just about a zillion ways to get around—and even more to do. With rapid growth comes rapid loss. I think something in this city’s…
After all, airspace can be invaded, as can land and sea. God forbid you see an unauthorized Russian jet swoop over New Orleans. Shots will be fired. Of course, as soon as you decide to divide up and name the skies, it gets a bit complicated. How do you set up boundaries in the sky?…