Invisible Cities

Something that I find very unsettling about the readings of Invisible Cities that were chosen is that they take cities in these anecdotes and somehow connect them to these stories, but they're so unclear about how these anecdotes involve the cities or what they're supposed to say or represent about the city. My favorite one is "Cities & Desire 5" in which somehow dreams and the structure of the city are intrinsically connected, somehow attempting to make a city a trap to achieve a dream but only ending up as an ugly trap that manages to end their dreams. I can really see how that applies in some way to how urban decay and business life can be almost a winding path leading to nowhere. In some bizarre way, it almost explains a city as an organism.