Humans navigate urban centers in a manner akin to blood coursing through the body, progressing via the concrete veins of highways and freeways in a never-ending exercise of escape and return, locked in a continuum until a point of finality. In cities, bodies are shuttled and navigate bypasses and circular loops, only slowing to collect in small segments at traffic lights and crosswalks, a function not unlike blood pooling in a heart’s chambers before being ejected through its ventricle to continue its course through the body. Cities are organisms. Traffic is the bloodline of a city’s cartography and economy. Given the opportunity to step back, perch, and observe the city’s intricate mechanisms from above, the outline and fine lines of traffic infrastructure detail the urban corpus that allows it to live, breathe and economize its motion.

Hardcover 21.5 X 33.5 cm 112 pages 2024