A ‘marooned’ contemporary subdivision awaits a promised ‘thriving’ future town centre. A city made backwards, its imagined urbanity constructed through advertising and mass media well before the provision of the civic. This project takes the proposed future town centre at Alkimos Beach as a design brief. Acknowledging these market forces and the individual’s desire for the consumption of a place narrative, it will construct a local parable to anchor the civic conscious of a planted city. But what kind of architectural response if any is suitable for this current suburban terminus? And what kind of form and function if any, will constitute a collective symbol? Accepting the local spatial narrative as one of dispersion means that this response may not necessarily be one of consolidation, but could become a symbolic monument to this experience, acknowledging an end point and a starting point for the consolidationary waves of infill. One such approach then is to sustain this reversed urbanity, and accept a series of spread experiences set across a vast field.