I like them all, but particularly the third one: there is a sort of dialectic between the dominant (mitteleuropean) rational order and a vital (balcanic? 
) anarchy on the right.
Ha! That's a novel one! Probably quite correct as well.
Houston streets are built in a grid pattern. When Austro-Hungarian empire was building new villages in the occupied Balkan areas (northern Serbia, etc.), they used that grid pattern too. Balkan villages, however, are typically spread around hills and valleys haphazardly, more like ranches in the American west.
