Politics and Pastoralism

The Routledge handbook of planning history

“…This informal, or "kinetic" sphere, he claims, is increasingly becoming the established framework, within which the more traditional urban forms are exceptionally placed. Sanford Kwinter (1995) suggests that "a city both lives and may be found only in its transformations and ramifications, in the cultural patterns and subjectivities it nurtures." Both Kwinter and Mehrotra, addressing different urban spheres, worry about the severe limitations of traditional two-dimensional representation to capture these essential qualities.…”