ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the analysis of the material dimension of the city. It discusses the speed potentials of transportation systems. The first and undoubtedly most important is that material artifacts are not only central when it comes to defining an environment's receptiveness to projects but also, and more importantly, in defining the projects themselves. The chapter shows that a region's material dimension forges unique motilities with regard to skills. Living in and using a region that has been planned and configured for public transportation use leads people to develop highly-specialized user skills for utilizing the supply for projects and plans. The chapter explains that that the arrangement or layout of material artifacts in the city or region is a decisive ingredient in urban culture. The diversity of lifestyles and projects therefore depends not only on opening an environment's potential receptiveness but also on the diversity of the potential receptiveness between cities and regions.
