#also this opens up really fun ideas about how the lobby works and manufactured rebellion from a visual standpoint because neon signs would

[vinyls-and-valentines]

Battery City does not have sidewalks— what good would they be, anyways? Space is a crucial component in urban design, and when confined within armed concrete walls meant to protect as much as conceal, one can only really ever build upwards.

And so, upwards the City went. Roads once left as relics of the automobile age turned slick sheets of light meant to guide hover-cars along invisible paths, high above the ground. Catwalks hung upon walls alongside planters full of artificial plants and monorail tracks secured with the claw-like grip of steel anchors.

Like a vine, the City grew upwards, and like a vine, it tried to snuff out any life below it.

Humans, however, are far more resilient than plants— quite resourceful too, when push come to shove— so in the shadows of towering spires they've built their own paths. Along rivers of radiance there are stepping stones in the shape of broken down cars left to be claimed by decay, far enough out of sight to create an inconspicuous road network of its own.

After all, why look down when all your aspirations dangle above your head, barely out of grasp?