Sim City

The NYT has a short, but sweet article on the vocabulary of urban sprawl.

Included is one scary, bizarre image. Reticulated splines indeed. One point in that circle layout is much like any other, leading to sense of no place.

I was in Auckland last weekend, and its easy to forget just how big the city is when you don`t live there. Development on the edges of a city is always an issue, and coming from the topographically obsessed Wellington where one is always aware of their place in relation to the city, I felt quite lost out in the wilds of Pakuranga and Howick. The weather was great though.