“The city was more like a theater, a series of stages upon which individuals could work their own distinctive magic while performing a multiplicity of roles.(…) A labyrinth, an encyclopedia, an emporium, a theater, the city is somewhere where fact and imagination simply have to fuse. (…)The city as we imagine it, the soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, nightmare, is a real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate in maps and statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.”

                    David Harvey: The condition of Postmodernity