Invisible Cities - Jesse Papineau

It's likely that most people (myself included – until now) don't really think about the emotional makeup of a city, yet that has just as much an impact on the entire culture as the politics or economy of the area. I think this reading could pretty much be applied to any city even though many of the anecdotes had to do with very personal things. For example, even if someone has described a specific cracked sidewalk in their city, that can affect anyone in that same city (or in another) in exactly the same way. However, I think the most interesting thing that this reading made me realize was that things like that can affect people in exactly the opposite ways – perhaps someone's happiest memory occurred on that same, bleak sidewalk.