“The importance of mobility and access in the contemporary metropolis brings to infrastructure the character of collective space. Transportation infrastructure is less a self-sufficient service element than an extremely visible and effective instrument in creating new networks and relationships.”

Alex Wall, “Programming the Urban Surface,” 1999¹

“The emphasis in the future must be, not upon speed and immediate practical conquest, but upon exhaustiveness, interrelationship and integration. The coordination and adjustment of our technical effort […] is more important than extravagant advances along special lines, and equally extravagant retardations along others, with a disastrous lack of balance between the various parts.”

Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization, 1934¹