Blog Prompt #1 - Energy, Flow and Transformation Through the City
The idea that that a city has energy, flow, and transformation is clear in a cities daily happenings. Not only does a city do all these things as it goes through it's daily routine, it does them simultaneously and in an interrelated way.
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A city transforms throughout the day as the energy in the city flows with its movement. People wake up and come to life. The patterns of these workers, shoppers, and travelers bring a city to life with energy and transform it into something moving, functioning and alive.
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All the changes and happenings that take place are only temporary though, because at the end of each day, the transformation reverses and the energy seems to flow back out just as the light does at the end of the day. A cities happenings are assembled just to fade and decay after so much work has went into making it function and succeed, yet we take this in stride and it starts over again the next day, just for the same thing to happen the next.
