Books give you an excellent direction to think.. dont they?. I am currently reading this book Emergence- I seem to enjoy all the books i read but this one is special. This book speaks of the connection between the way ants live and the way cities had emerged. One point to ponder over here is that many of todays great cities have not been planned to be cities. They just emerged from within themselves. What makes a city that it is?. What comes to your mind when I tell Mumbai or Delhi or Newyork?. If it is busy fast paced life style, then it means Cities have life of their own. How is that made possible? The life of the cities is the integration of patterns of individual behaviours. This means that every individual in a particular city has an influence in the city as a whole. How come certain places in a city command higher prices than other places? If is it because of better facilities, then how come they alone got the better facilities than the other places in the first place. Does this mean to say that the city has a mind of its own?. Ofcourse many of these questions can be answered as like minded people coming together, but tell me how come you know that these people will be like minded in such a large city? Certain questions are best left unanswered..
Yet to complete the book. Iam sure I will be more confused by the end of it......