side probe #5

ON THE OBSOLESCENCE
OF THE CITY

The same process of speed-up, pushed further in recent years, has resulted in a total reversal of the patterns of confusion generated by the first travel revolution of rail and steam-boat.

The car decentralized the city, creating the sub-urb, the plane made every city the suburb of evrey other, and the jet bypasses urb and suburb alike, leaving them to decay and befuddle "developers".

Meantime, children standing in their playpens watching TV ads begin to experience all aspects of the entire globe at once as an intimate portion of the new human environment.

The TV generation feels truly at home in any and all parts of the globe, except under its own archaically-structured roof-tree.