Sam Jacob reads the latest Sex and the City movie as a thesis on New York City's urban design. It's not as far-fetched as you may think.
Jacob writes that in the Sex and the City universe, "...urbanism has dissolved into consumerism, where diversity is replaced by a thousand ways of making the same decision. The one obsessed with labels, speciality cocktails, restaurants as brands. The one where infrastructure is redesigned as though it were a high-end kitchen. In fact, that's precisely it! Manhattan feels freakily like an interior: as though the entire place has consumed itself, and in the process its outside has become inside. Manhattan is no longer a city – it has removed itself from the urban register to become a vast and complex piece of interior design."
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