Radical Urban Theory | See You Later Alligator

“The alligator story relies on the conjecture that to live in a big city is to be subject to the unintentional acts of others. This may be a foundational fear of big cities, particularly to those who do not reside there, that so many people in a small area leads to chaos, to unpredictable dangers that cannot be controlled or prevented. The city is thus imagined to occasion a state of personal vulnerability. Our fears are countenanced by the hustle and bustle: the city of teeming masses is a cauldron of unpredictable dangers.”

And there’s, y’know, alligators in the sewers.