larger cities

Petunia just doesn’t want to add to the idea that there was terrible upheaval beyond control, and everyone fled in total terror like some awful ‘B movie.’ New Orleans is a good example. There was disaster created there because the residents desired it, and anyone who disengaged did so because they were ready to disengage, and the circumstance provided the opportunity. Anyone who relocated did so for the adventure, and those who remained did so because they wanted to participate in new designs and ideas regarding retaining the unique ‘flavor’ of their city and enhancing it.

In her future every major city does the same thing in a manner. They hold to those concepts that they enjoy, the ones that make them unique and flavorful and build upon that idea, and exercise the opportunity to dismantle or rearrange those concepts that they didn’t especially like or were no longer working. And in that way larger cities became more community minded and supportive to one another and in some cases much smaller.

Cities like individuals focus on their own individuality and how they can foster that in a way that is most inventive. They become less about buying and selling and consumerism and more about unique expression. Some shopping malls became artists communities with stores redesigned into living and working quarters, and common areas used for the display and enjoyment of their own creativity and also social interaction. Some cities discovered that when they no longer had such a great need to commute they could eliminate the concrete infrastructure of highways and replace it with more pleasing pathways that could accommodate other modes of transportation. Pathways that are used for the enjoyment of the journey and not so much to achieve a destination, for if one is hell-bent on destination they can simply project themselves there.

Each community is different in emphasizing their own expertise, but overall the inventiveness of redesign is unprecedented and beyond what we can begin to imagine and hypothesize now.