In the study of urban anthropology (e.g., the "folk urban continuum" around some places) one thing I recall was in certain cities there are "champions" part of the urban phenomena that I imagine goes back to at least the Greco-Roman times and perhaps in the "Fertile Crescent" (Tigris-Euphrates in current day Iraq. Also, perhaps in the first city laid out in a grid on the Indus river, though they perhaps had discovered hypnosis, a cuneiform we still haven't translated might tell) and is still much a part of urban society. Remarkably we maybe should be looking at infrastructure concerns perhaps, the battle royale over the water tunnel to come up in a lot in lower Manhattan, to be taken under the Dinkins admin., owned by developers of Times Square. The rezoning and other needs of what once was a 7AM-7PM city that Buckminster Fuller wanted to put a dome over to save it's costs and make it 24/7, still is waiting for the water to come up there or at One Police Plaza to supply the redevelopment. Huffington Post
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