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Inner complexity
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New Urbanist suburban porch (Middleton Hills, Wisconsin)
Mall at Waterloo Station, London
"Your complaints about those malls and suburbs misses the point; from the outside they look all the same, but they're not. We spirits are good at looking into hearts. There's a whole geography of desire, ideals, habits, norms laid over those miles of porches and malls. There's all sorts of networks and they make connections across those miles. 'Home' is extended, and maybe consists of six separated but linked areas. the 'center' is dispersed but there's still items that are key nodes. It's hard for us spirits of place to get used to that invisible geography; it was easier when we could sit in the central shrines and see everything wheeling around us. We're just one stop on the metro network now. So we have to be on the move, but we don't wander aimlessly."