'A plane of tarmac with hot spots of urban intensity'

摘要

Is this the most famous thing that Rem Koolhaas said? Maybe not. The single word delirious is a candidate for that, as are the letters S,M,L,XL But the plane of tarmac with hot spots is brilliant. It presages the idea of a single continuous city spread out across the surface of the globe, a startling and maybe even sufficient urban paradigm for now.