The creator and residents of Rob Dunlavey's Crystal Cities (not the same as
Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia) are breathing a sigh of relief at having
not been chosen by Amazon, Inc. as one of the the east coast locations for the new company headquarters. Rob Dunlavey's Crystal Cities are the opposite of appealing to corporate tastes or corporate logistics.
They have very few asphalt roads, parking spaces, juice bars, yoga gyms or franchise coffee shops. Transportation systems are antiquated, idiosyncratic or of the two-footed or pedaled variety. There's no place boring to go to like the suburbs or the mall. The forest, mountains and ocean are sometimes uncomfortably close by though.
The Crystal City internet infrastructure consists of yelling loudly, carrier pigeons, intuition and several dusty sets of the Britannica encyclopedia. I mean, really, who would want their corporate headquarters in these rickety old cities populated with dreamers, birdbrains and astrologers?
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Nosy Neighbors
01-04-14d |
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Old City Congestion
01-06-16a |
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Old Technology
01-09-09b |
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An Astrologer
01-15-15a |
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Transportation?
01-31-09a |
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A City of Romance
02-02-14a |
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Good and Evil in the Crystal City
02-10-16a |
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Bad Weather
04-22-15a |
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A Lazy Workforce
05-27-15a |
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