[Mali-]

I completely disagree. The article can be viewed as analysing the effects of globalisation, the growing homogeneity of spaces that starts at AirBnB and cafes and spreads. Something is lost if you visit a new country and the layout is exactly the same as where you live. If I visit Hong Kong and I see a London tube type rail map, I'm going to be disappointed. There is a tradeoff in not immediately knowing how to use the trains or immediately knowing how the postcode is layed out - but the gain is individuality. I lean towards keeping the individuality and not sucking out every drop of exploration into the unknown. Isn't that a big part of travelling?

[andsoitis]

The author showed some skylines from a distance and claimed all cities look the same. But that’s juts not true. Hong Kong and London look, feel, and work very differently from each other, even though the latter was a British colony.

[tsunamifury]

City of London and Hong Kong are very much the same. Historical London at large is not. But I think you’re missing the point on purpose here.

[tycho-newman]

> the growing homogeneity of spaces that starts at AirBnB and cafes and spreads

Like I said, there's options when you look outside AirBnB. There is diversity in design if you look outside the haunts of the bourgeois classes.

And look, some people want to struggle reading metro maps. I am not one of them. I, for one, am glad that Harry Beck designed the tube map that would become so influential all over the world. Praise be to Harry Beck! https://youtu.be/cTLCfl01zuE?t=201

[masswerk]

But you could go to Paris and have the equally iconic and functional plan illuminé, and it instantly felt like Paris.

[tycho-newman]

Paris is is the crown jewel of the petit bourgeois.