The long and narrow is a different aesthetic. A dweller will likely dwell in a dwelling with a view of the desert or sea unbroken to the horizon. When you come

The long and narrow is a different aesthetic. A dweller will likely dwell in a dwelling with a view of the desert or sea unbroken to the horizon. When you come home you will look out upon a large natural world with a stunning unobstructed sunrise or sunset (choose your side wisely) every day. You are "in a city", but you are "living on Earth", both are present, separated by your front door.. Culturally, most of the residents will be observing sunrise and sunset prayers which makes the transitions of the sun a little more anchoring. Traditionally morning prayer is twilight until sunrise, the evening is sunset until the red leaves the sky in the west. (So says Wikipedia anyway, then it gets into astronomical math, so I expect everyone just has an app for it now.)