Sublime

A city is where all dangers come together for human beings, where everything happens to human beings. I use “city” in a fairly metaphorical sense. A city is where culture comes together and flowers. A pueblo is a city.

New York in 1932 was half-completed skyscrapers, work on them long since halted for the lack of funds, that glared down on the city from glassless windows.

Cox’s Bazar, in Bangladesh, si trova Kutupalong, il campo profughi più grande del mondo. Nel 2017, nel giro di poche settimane, tutti gli alberi di questa zona collinare sono stati rasi al suolo, e uno dei distretti più poveri di una delle nazioni più povere del mondo è diventata la casa di circa un milione di rohingya birmani fuggiti dalle

With its heart gone, the neighborhood had no will to resist the invasion. There was nothing to hold its people—and as they saw the blight creeping closer, they simply moved away. For more than thirty years, the blight in South Brooklyn had been confined to the waterfront area. Now, thanks to Robert Moses and his parkway, it was on the loose,