COMPLEX "Every city must have its basic compositional skeleton. The ideological content should be reflected in the form. In the search for a form that corresponds to the social content, however, the human scale must always be kept in mind. Bringing out the ideological tension is a fundamental task for us if we want to counteract capitalist tendencies to break up the city into isolated units, to weaken the bonds between its inhabitants, to give the city a semi-rural character." Dr. Waclaw Ostrowski, Spatial shaping of the socialist city, in City. Warsaw January 1952 Images of urban everyday life seemingly unmoored from any history, let alone politics, with no deeper genesis beyond ad hoc decisions, deceptively typical and devoid of deeper meanings. This seemingly undisguised state of affairs is a complex. A state of limitation that cannot be directly articulated. After all, someone designed this space and, indirectly, human behaviour. Awareness of the persistence of utopian constructs of the past, in a life lived according to pragmatic realities, once perceived, refers to further associations. All of them are born at a time when we were almost certain that the new reality had already permanently taken the place of the old one.