For better or for worse, in all its fragmentation, Houston is also a city that may give us some indications of how in the future megalopolises could become more than the sum of their parts. It may come as a surprise to many, but even if Houston is this endless, quasi-comatose city that for the most part consists of an endless sea of individual houses, shaded by what Lars Lerup has called a “zoohemic canopy” of broccoli-like trees, it is also the birthplace of some spectacular forms of collective life. The success of these new forms of collective life depends on a symbiosis between live and televised audiences. The buildings accommodating this new collective life are basically enormous halls that can accommodate events from baseball to football, from Wrestlemania to rock concerts and from demolition derby’s to religious masses and victims of a hurricane