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Part 2

The City Agora

In order to become part of the global imaginary, an old world city must learn .... the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts ...[like Rome. On the other hand, a modern city like New York has to] invent itself, from hour to hour, in the act of throwing away its [past] ...and challenging the future (Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, p 91.) Some cities have a way of developing original, and sometimes highly aesthetic movements and moments, and then in projecting the significance of those onto the global imaginary. Such innovations have always the problem of entering the marketplace and capture people’s imagination.