Note how public cameras occupy space in your context.

Are they tucked discreetly under ledges like the curbside drains in cities with monsoon seasons — designed not for beauty, but in anticipation of intensity, movement, convergence, trouble?

Or are they bolted to gleaming poles and foregrounded as urban sculpture, a reminder of the ubiquitous measurability of your movements across the city?

More “We’re watching out for you,” or more, “Watch yourself”?

See also: similar questions asked about my old neighborhood in Shanghai nearly four years ago (with accompanying hat tips to Patrick Tanguay and Mayo Nissen).