Very poetic.

The modern city since the 1920s has been designed around mass production. City planners designed mass transportation so workers can get to their factory jobs from their mass produced housing. It is all to support capitalism.

Now that Western countries have exported factory jobs to 'developing countries' what is the point of postindustrial cities? Certainly, we don't need mass housing, mass transportation, and spaces for mass consumption.

As we move into a postindustrial, (perhaps postcapitalist) world, we really need to rethink the purpose of our cities. Do we really need mass transportation, more density, highrise office buildings, and spaces for mass consumption (retail)?