The railroad lines and the subway are other examples of detachment. The buried paths of the [...] subway could not be related to the reste of the environment except where they come up for air [...]. The surface entrances of the Stations may be strategic nodes in the city, but they are related along invisible conceptual linkages. The subway is a disconnected nether world.

Lynch, Kevin: The image of the city (1960)

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