The City
The city amplifies everything.
Seen from the air, the city reveals its true nature.
From a satellite, a city like São Paulo or Buenos Aires is a stain. Not a designed form nor a geometric order: an organic stain that spreads over the surface of the earth inexhaustibly. A fabric of asphalt, concrete and metal that advances colonizing whatever it finds: nature, fertile soil, watercourses, grasslands, forests. It covers everything. It replaces everything with its own material. The image from the air has something unsettling and revealing about it: the city has the form of an invading organism. It expands without limit. It consumes the resources of its surroundings. It transforms what it touches into more of itself. It grows following its own communication routes like the arms of an amorphous entity: along the roads, around the railway stations, at the crossings where movement concentrates. Where there is flow, there is city. Where there is city, there is more city.