Saturday evening in downtown Boston, spending the evening transcribing interviews for the project on public space, urban/civic culture and the role of the citizen in Athens.
“When you walk through a city and you feel a wave of emotions it’s because you come across the footprints of those who have lived and died there – whatever is left behind, a certain ‘humidity’. This is not merely the product of our individual culture – it is that, times one billion for those who have gone before us, and times another billion for those who will come after us. We exist at that edge of the present and this is what a city is”.
Nikos Vatopoulos (interview with the author, Athens, April 2013).