First Impressions

By | January 21, 2009

The UK – Tiny cities that somehow promise you that they would get bigger for you once you get used to them, or once you grow to love them.

The US – Large cities that promise that the huge impersonal cities will narrow down to become smaller and more personal for you.

In other words, the cities in one get larger while in the other, they get smaller. Perhaps this has something to do with the roads?

6 thoughts on “First Impressions

  1. Judi

    r u on drugs? i hope your brain is not shrinking, too 🙂 – did u see the inauguration?
    j.

  2. Judi

    r u on drugs? i hope your brain is not shrinking, too 🙂 – did u see the inauguration?
    j.

  3. akinlabi

    remember, don’t you that cities are built on the idea of contrast and the further you get close to knowing them the further you are from their meaning

  4. akinlabi

    remember, don’t you that cities are built on the idea of contrast and the further you get close to knowing them the further you are from their meaning

  5. solomonsydelle

    Interesting observation. Definitely the case for America’s cities, at least the ones I have been able to visit and live in.

    Unfortunately, I cannot speak for the UK. All my time there has been spent in the bustling city and ‘exburbs’ of London.

  6. solomonsydelle

    Interesting observation. Definitely the case for America’s cities, at least the ones I have been able to visit and live in.

    Unfortunately, I cannot speak for the UK. All my time there has been spent in the bustling city and ‘exburbs’ of London.

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