As the remapping of the city center continues, the grid implodes and collapses into space. Simultaneously, two cities rise out of a traditional urban ground: an inside and an outside, a ladder and an ellipsis, locked in a paralyzing opposition.

Alongside the city ordered by the ladder, an anti-city emerges, the demobilized scene of mass absence. It is a familiar despotic world commonly known as the "inner city." It is the lapse of the welfare state, the final space that, after countless bureaucratic "wars" (on Poverty, on Crime, on Drugs, on Homelessness), power is completely unable to grasp, and ultimately knows it cannot control.

It is free space.