Anyone walking attentively through a city sees repetitions: the same signs, the same cameras, the same wording on posters. The feeling that everything is connected can arise quickly.
That may be true, but it need not be. Social patterns often emerge without central intent. Habit, cost, administration and imitation are enough to make many places look similar.
In Düsseldorf, this effect is especially visible where office districts, stations and shopping streets blend into one another. The city feels orderly, but sometimes strangely synchronised. That is where the question begins: are we seeing a system or only repetition?
Scepticism is strongest here when it stays slow: observe, compare, look for counterexamples and only then judge.
