Listen to the Music of the Traffic in the City
Places, like people, have pulses-- if only you know how to measure them.
- The Economist October 22nd, 2016
- Source: http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21709002-places-people-have-pulsesif-only-you-know-how-measure-them-listen
The Rockefeller Centre sprawls across 89,000 square metres of midtown Manhattan. Curiously, Alcatraz, in San Francisco Bay, the island home of America's most famous former prison (see picture), has exactly the same area. That coincidence aside, few might imagine the manicured roof gardens and art deco office buildings of the one have much in common with the brutal crags and blockhouses of the other. But they do.
