1. Cities can be at their experientially richest during periods of relative disjunction. Cities have open-ended potential to be something that serves as what we need, because they can be explored, manipulated to another direction, and gives room to be something other than just one purpose. Free our concepts from all parts of the developed city- experiencing the dark and the lowlife is another part cities offer. Imperfection allows progress to happen. Low rent, minimal policing, and casual welding allow people to engage with the cities and freely express their own will.
2. "Risk of Disneylanding" means that the cities have the risk of serving for just one purpose. For example, Paris and New York are famous for tourist's city that it continues being the tourist's city. Statue of liberty and Effel Tower are often visited by the tourists, but the residents do not go there after once when they first came to the city. This grouping of populations cause limited interaction and encounter between different groups. This causes lack of liveliness and having that various "choices" cities offer. Corporate city where everything is done by a single entity, a single ownership. It causes over control and reduction of choice as a result.
3. Anarchy of choice, disneyfication,
4. Gibson anticipates the concern he took about the city and the future
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