1. Inconspicuous -- Ubiquitous -- Official graffiti: utility codes -- Initialed impressions: sidewalk markings -- Planned failure: breakaway posts -- A little safer: emergency boxes -- Camouflage -- Thornton's scent bottle: stink pipes -- Exhaustive outlets: fake facades -- Catalytic diverters: ventilation buildings -- Neighborhood transformers: electrical substations -- Cellular biology: wireless towers -- Resourceful artifice: production wells -- Accretions -- Seeing stars: anchor plates -- Scarchitecture: urban infill -- Lines of sight: relay nodes -- Thomassons: maintained remains -- Accumulative controversy: love locks -- Spolia of war: constructive reuse -- 2. Conspicuous -- Identity -- Vexillology rules: municipal flags -- Public bodies: civic monuments -- Fonts of knowledge: historical plaques -- Distinguished features: that fancy shape -- Safety -- Mixed signals: traffic lights -- Visibility aids: retroreflective studs -- Checkered past: recognition patterns -- Memorable but meaningless: warning symbols -- Signs of times: shelter markers -- Signage -- Broad strokes: hand-painted graphics -- tube benders: neon lights -- Sky dancers: inflatable figures -- Outstanding directors: production placards -- Minded businesses: absent advertising -- 3. Infrastructure -- Civic -- Bureaucracy inaction: incidental bridge -- Good delivery: postal service -- Water -- Rounding down: manhole covers -- Upwardly potable: drinking fountains -- Reversing course: waste management -- Circling back: subsurface cisterns -- Apples to oysters: flood mitigation -- Technology -- Fine lines: utility poles -- Alternated currents: power grids -- Moonlight towers: street lights -- Dialed back: electricity meters -- Network effects: internet cables -- Roadways -- Accelerating change: painting centerlines -- Shifting responsibility: blaming jaywalkers -- Key indicators: crash testing -- Cemented divisions: lane separators -- Extra turns: safer intersections -- Circulating logic: rotary junctions -- Incomplete stops: calming traffic -- Reversing gears: changing lanes -- Public -- On verges: interstitial spaces -- Crossing over: pedestrian signals -- Sharrowed routes: cycling lanes -- Congestion costs: easing gridlock -- Extravehicular activities: naked streets -- 4. Architecture -- Liminal -- Imperfect security: locked entries -- Open and shut: revolving doors -- Improved egress: emergency exits -- Materials -- Stolen facades: recycling brick -- Aggregate effects: cracking concrete -- Hybrid solutions: amassing timber -- Regulations -- Secular orders: taxable units -- formative setbacks: mansard roofs -- Heaven to hell: property limits -- Towers -- Braking good: modern elevators -- Cladding skeletons: curtain walls -- Topping out: skyscraper races -- Unanticipated loads: managing crises -- Perspective matters: redefining skylines -- Beyond above: engineering icons -- Grouped dynamics: street canyons -- Foundations -- Vernacular enclaves: international districts -- Reality checks: service centers -- Approachable ducks: commercial signifies -- Competitive starchitecture: contrasting additions -- Heritage -- Heathen's gate: overlapping narratives -- Landmark ruling: historic preservation -- Recrowned jewel: complex restoration -- Architectural license: faithless reconstruction -- Unnatural selection: subjective stabilization -- Faded attraction: alluring abandonment -- Runed landscapes: peripheral traces -- Unbuilding codes: premeditated deconstruction --
Points of origin: zero markers
Edge cases: boundary stones
Defining moments: standardized time
Road boosters: national highways
Rounding errors: Jeffersonian grids
Unassigned lands: patchwork plans
Rectilinear revelations: coordinated layouts
Good examples: reconfigured super-blocks
Standard deviations: growth patterns
Citations needed: informal geonyms
Hybrid acronames: neighborhood monikers
Calculated omissions: unlucky numbers
Deliberated errors: fictitious entries
Misplaced locations: null island
Paved ways: Tucson stravenues
Accessible voids: nameless places
Graveyard shifts: pastoral parks
Trailing spaces: converted greenways
Courting palms: street trees
Lawn enforcement: owned backyards
Lofty treescrapers: ungrounded plants
Naturalized denizens: common squirrels
Ghost streams: fish stories
Home to roost: unloved doves
Raccoon resistance: trash pandas
Unmanned lands: wildlife corridors
Loved park: dubious skateblockers
Urine trouble: discouraging spikes
Obstinate objects: discomforting seats
Cities of light: dissuasive illumination
Targeting demographics: disruptive sounds
Exterior motives: deceptive deterrents
Guerrilla fixation: unsanctioned shield
- Drawing attention: viral signage
Asking permission: open hydrants
Seeking forgiveness: embattled boulders
Legitimizing action: middle way
Ramping up: cutting curbs
Cycling through: clearing cars
Driving away: appropriating parklets
Grating on: grassroots gardening
Bumping out: collaborative peacemaking.
