I Love Infrastructure

fractalized:

A Burger King surrounded by blast barriers in Baghdad in 2008. Photo by Donovan Wylie.

Image used to illustrate “How cities reshape themselves when trust vanishes” by Thanassis Cambanis.
“At root, cities depend on constant leaps of faith. Each act of violence—a mugging, a murder, a bombing—erodes that faith. Over time, especially if there are more attacks, a city will adapt in subtle but profound and insidious ways.”

(via architectureofdoom)