• What Do Hearts and Cells Have To Do With Our Cities?

    What Do Hearts and Cells Have To Do With Our Cities?

    Biological metaphors for the city abound in daily use. You may live close to an “arterial” road or in the “heart” of a metropolis. You may work in one of the city’s “nerve centres” or exercise in a park described as the city’s “lungs”. The ready use of such metaphors indicates an underlying naturalism in…