Sex and the City: A Statement on Urban Design?

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."