The great escape

摘要

The title is apt. These are visions of the city as a garden - as something to be enjoyed, something that grows and changes, a place to escape to, separate from the 'real world'. It makes little difference whether the cities are imaginary (Plug-in City, Instant City, Layer City, Arcadia City) or real (Oslo, London, Los Angeles, Tokyo); they all seem somehow removed - places of contemplation, rather than places in which to live.