Jr. The Images of Commonplace Living in Modern City Regions Real estate and land provide widely accepted and accessible images of most urban regions, standing alone, they limit our ability to comprehend the contemporary image climate of our increasingly complex metropolitan lives.
Movement is the essence of our urban existence.
The economy of any city region requires unending flows of goods, energy, and people for its sustenance. Thus we wish to call attention to the images that the city region presents of people and property in motion. Having closely examined three areas in the Minneapolis-St. Most of the time the images are experienced by an individual moving about alone, not as a group experience. Spatially the Twin Cities MSA bounds the daily journey to work, and errands for food and clothing, but many of the region-wide images are national packages, not confined to the Twin Cities region.