De Certeau's City: Naked Lunch in Superposition

The city when viewed from a distance or down on the streets is the same or is it?  The short answer is yes.  The long answer is yes, but whoa mama what a strange reason why!  Our perception of the city from a distance and in the streets is obviously different, as is each of our individual perceptions and understanding of the city.  This city can be real or a mental construction of history, language, or really anything.  Our minds are amazing, or trivial depending on the perspective.  But if we take emotion out, and leave only logic, we can see a common structure emerge.  I'm not saying that emotion doesn't play a vital role in our understanding of our world, only that to see what something is made of you have to deconstruct it first.  Thus, the city in our perceived logical form is just that, perceived.  Now, I know I've talked about each individual's perception being different and all that jazz, but this gets much more interesting and weird when we apply a recently observed phenomenon in physics.  When there is no matter around other matter to influence it, the isolated matter will vibrate and be still at the same time.  That is the matter is in motion and not at the same time.  It is only when the matter is affected by associations with other matter, that it is observed in a specific way.  In other words, when applied to the city, the city is in every possible state until the observer perceives it in a specific manner.  De Certeau's city can be anything, and is anything until influenced in the mind of a perceiver by associations.  Strangely enough, you CAN believe anything - until you've seen it.