"Cities have been seen as generators of employment, economy, goods, and aspirations. But at the same time, cities allow for the creation of multiple kinds of urban living, and these are reflected in the form of the city. The everyday lives of people in cities depend on several external factors (work, leisure, services, etc.), and the aspiration of the people always remains to function in sync with all of them. The importance given to these external factors generates the urgency to act, producing hurriedness in the process.

People in cities experience hurriedness—the constant need to move and work at an eager speed—under the influence of various working and living conditions. Different places experience different levels of hurriedness in the city.

This hurriedness is blatantly noticeable in metro cities at several instances. Whether it's a small purchase made at a street vendor in complete haste, often using simple monosyllabic communication, or an automobile driver always attempting to "make the next light." A quick cup of coffee or cutting chai is gulped, and people have breakfast standing on the road at a fast footstall before reporting to work. At the station, one dashes in haste to get aboard a local train, which will be followed in five minutes by another. In these, as well as several other subtler processes of hurriedness, the city or the immediate environment is experienced in a very different way compared to strolling through the same place.

These experiences of hurriedness become evident and noticeable when a person moves, either from one city to another or within a city. For example, when a person living in a metropolitan city visits a second-tier city, it is common to hear them exclaim how the ambiance of the place felt extremely laid back. This general statement made often about cities being slower or faster is essentially saying that the experiential time of the people in either of these cities expands or compresses beyond what the people are used to in their everyday lives. This expansion/ compression changes the experience, and hence the image of the place.

The image of a place is crucial to the way people develop associations with it. For example, people in metro cities nearing the age of retirement often express a longing to move to a particular town or second-tier city. One of the reasons is that these places have less hurriedness, and there's a belief that it will allow for a peaceful and stress-free life. This notion of relating the absence of hurriedness in a place to the quality of life is not limited to a specific age group, but even the idea of a vacation for a metro city dweller usually involves escaping from the city to a less hurried life, even if it is for a small period of time. These examples from within the city show how experiences of hurriedness in the city may also have implications for the city itself.

Hurriedness might also have a spatial character that it generates. When we talk about space for an individual, it can be generated through three means:

- the experience of the form and its characteristics (the idea of the container),

- the people around him/her and their activities, social position, character, etc. (the social space),

- and the space created by his/her own state of mind and body (the space of the self).

Hurriedness is the experience generated by a place on an individual. This hurriedness of the self-and/or social hurriedness both change the space the individual. The change is more in the sense of space (perception), which may then cause a change in the physical form, or the way spaces are appropriated.

This relation of hurriedness of a city and the space that creates it or the space that gets created seems to be an interesting enquiry, which could enable one to generate a new lens for evaluating spaces in cities and their relationship with people."

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