The park is for movements within in a specifically bounded place. The highway's promise of increased mobility is a promise of expanded freedom from a different, but still confining, structure of the new city. And, every hour is not rush hour. The fundamental fact is that social meaning evaporates from places, and therefore from society, and becomes diluted and defused in the reconstructed logic of a space of flows whose profile, origin, and ultimate purpose are unknown, even for many of the entities integrated in the network of exchanges. The flows of power generate the power of flows, whose material reality imposes itself as a natural phenomenon that cannot be controlled or predicted, only accepted and managed.
People live in places, power rules through flows.
Castells, Manuel, The Informational City. The cellular unit of Perimeter Center is not the block but the land bay. The land bay, by contrast to the block, implies a void to be parked upon, ship-like, by a temporary tenant. Perimeter Center land platting is a deliberate collection of individual land bays developed as private gardens in which one works, markets, resides, and defines a collective realm. Places Today the challenge to urbanists is to develop a vocabulary that can speak to the ongoing process of development rather than its spatial contours at any moment.