Writing about fluid urban phenomena necessarily distorts their shifting character

Evidence

At this point, I wish only to emphasize that the phenomena we shall consider are of a shifting, moving, fluid character. To try to capture them with the written word is to freeze them -to make them more solid, more static, more permanent than they are. To write about them is, thus, more or less to distort them. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 693

Categorization

• SEED: Could seed an essay on the inherent distortion of any attempt to represent urban flux — how ethnography and flâneur narrative both freeze the moving city.
• XREF: connects to: Fixed spatial representations inevitably distort the fluid practical spaces they depict — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1608