It is especially in the "inner city" that the dream of space, such as a high-speed urban expressway, produces a landscape of perceived dread, such as the South Bronx. It is here that dreams of space turn into prisons -- only to generate more dreams and more prisons. In a spiral of increasing exclusion -- a virtual militarization of the environment which seems to end only in absolute closure -- the ultimate corporate ghetto is under construction.

And the world that has been consigned to the "outside" of the urban fortifications is restless.