"Multimedia has been promoted in terms that bring it dangerously close to an object that has more to do with utopian projections about the next millenium than with what any of its fundamental claims might entail."
Adrian Miles, The Emporor's New Clothes, Media International Australia, no.81, p68
"...utopias...have been visualised largely in terms of the city..."
Lewis Mumford, in Frank Manuel, Utopias and Utopian Thought p3
"... city as text and text as city. Every journey constructs a narrative."
William J Mitchell, City of Bits, p119
Architecture punctuates people.

The city, as a manifestor of individualism, isolation and alienation is strangely connected to the act of writing.

Buildings...texts for living in?...