about Cedric Price and why we should think of the city as a brain.
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Proposes a rail-linked urban infrastructure called potery syn belt that ties cities together and embeds an academic institution—a new University—as a deliberate operational node; treats infrastructure as a substrate for distributed cognition, reframing smart cities as a common brain rather than isolated sensors; presents this as a proposal with legacy influence rather than a completed system and argues that coordinating global infrastructure this way is the only plausible route to tackle climate change and resource loss.
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