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Learning from Mumbai

The view of the city from the taxi is the object in question in this essay. Or, it is the start of an exploration as to how the view of the city shapes our understanding of it, and more specifically, informs our production of space.

That the city represented informs production is not a question in this journey, for this iterative process is paramount and vital to space production.

However, just as different cites can to be said to have different characters which obviously derive from cultural variation, economic situations, architectural styles, meteorological differences and geographical differences, the future production of space by society is also bound within the cyclic process explained above - that of the city, the view, of the action of production, the city, the view...