88 / 87 Imagine a place …
Aren’t all cities ideas: fictions of
humanity? They offer a system
under which humans interact
or perhaps pass by each other
like ghosts in the night. but
whatever kind of system it is,
urbanity is about exchange.
Knowledge, money, food, goods:
humans must find our centres
in order to become more than
an individual.
The urban space holds power,
still – as an embodiment of
society, and all its possibilities.
It is this intangible possibility
that remains irreplaceable,
even today. As Calvino puts it:
“You take delight not in a city‘s
seven or seventy wonders,
but in the answer it gives to a
question of yours.”
