Walking to the map coordinates from the north quadrant suburbs was nightmarish and instructive. Half the roads had no sidewalks, so they had to walk in the street with all the vehicles—and fully half of those vehicles didn’t care whether they collided with pedestrians. There were high-density commercial streets that were inaccessible by foot, and low-density residential areas with broad sidewalks that nobody used. It was a hodgepodge of ill-conceived messes, as if Emerald’s planners used fifteen different city templates at the same time.
