Purusārtha
M. R. Pillai · Comment

In praise of the slow city

What we lose when every street is optimised for getting somewhere else.

Illustrative. Photograph: Puruṣārtha.

What we lose when every street is optimised for getting somewhere else.

What happens next depends less on the headline than on the follow-through.

The story, as ever, is in the distribution: who gains, who waits, and how long the advantage lasts once the initial momentum fades. That is the question this week leaves open.

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