But it also felt like you could be anyone you wanted here. That urban indifference is the upside of city living, the anonymity part of the attraction. No one knows you, yet neither do they have any expectation. Your own life here is a blank page waiting to be written on, or an empty stage ready to be walked upon.

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Cities are amalgams of buildings and people. They are inhabited settings from which daily rituals — the mundane and the extraordinary, the random and the staged — derive their validity. In the urban artifact and its mutations are condensed continuities of time and place. The city is the ultimate memorial of our struggles and glories: it is where th

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