There are cities I have loved living in, for a time, big cities. But in truth I have never believed in cities. Cities are fragile, built atop the most precarious assumption that the environmental conditions & resources that saw them bloom will remain in supply. Cities are not built for the future they themselves have wrought, and are proving too vast, static and immutable to adapt at anywhere near the pace they must to persist. The future of so many cities is husks of concrete, copper & plastic