Note on A Burglar's Guide to the City via Geoff Manaugh

Recall Bernard Tschumi’s point that architecture is constantly making subtle, even imperceptible, demands of its users, pushing them to behave or inhabit the building in certain ways, and now think of all those casino escalators filling up like cattle cars. “Every escalator ride gives them thirty more seconds to take pictures of you,” England said. The building itself is a camera.

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Geoff Manaugh

A Burglar's Guide to the City

Architecture as a controlling force on movement