From Models to Movement?

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the previous chapters of this book. The discussion of movements inside the building is highly selective, great emphasis being placed on the way the 'running-track' ward layout allowed maximum surveillance from nurses' stations. One can imagine that the architects, familiar from the start with the order of their plans, recognised without difficulty where they were in the finished building and so failed to appreciate the problem for other people. Excessive virtual movement on the screen has become an increasing distraction from actual movement in the world, but the physical world is still where people are and where they relate to each other most essentially. Outside buildings, they constantly encounter the problem of the car, and the appeal of Venice is as much lack of cars as presence of canals.