The results of these considerations are applied to aesthetic experience, in particular to an analysis of urban aesthetics of a section of the town of Dartmouth, Devonshire, England. The author concludes that through experience of aesthetic satisfaction a way may be available to bring about a balanced interaction between cortical opposites. If experience brings about structural changes in the brain, as some believe, then those who shape the urban environment have a fearful responsibility as regards the aesthetic responses that they provoke.