Thinking about the design of the contemporary city in relation to “mind” and “place” is in many ways a new proposition. There are references and images of the city projected as a body where the heart and circulation become analogies that render human anatomy at an urban scale; where anthropomorphised cities possess a calm sense of inherent logic and controlled order that comes from proportion and symmetry. This metaphor of the body does not work so well for the twenty-first century city as more and more people move to cities and where there...