A Capsule of Memories

  From your block to your street to your favorite pizza place, your city is a part of you. You leave memories and history in it, if you built it it has your seal, your heritage. It's the manifestation of your ideas, you interpret it and remember it as uniquely as the next person. It is your city.

   Even though Bogota is Bogota, its a different city for me than it is to some one who lives in Kennedy or the Mayor. This is because in a way our cities work very similar our subconcious in relation to dreams, as interpreted by Freud and in a more simplistic way, by Inception. When you're dreaming it is almost empty aside from a general undetailed infraestructure. When you come into the dream, however, you start to fill it up with your subconcious, every last miniscule detail contains a part of you, memory, an experience. This is visible when you wake up from a dream that it is easy to remember detail but bigger things not so much. What I mean with this analogy s that cities are also filled up with your interpretation, people might not see the hand print on the side walk that ou did when th cement was fresh, but you do, you remember and that makes you reminice of other stuff that other people dont know about.Even culturally this is inmense the perfect example is New York City. China Town, Korea Town, Little Italy and even "Pequena Colombia", are all places filled with specigic cultural aspects.

  Cities have this effect on everyone, however, it may also have a backlash. Some cities that do not thrive in multi-cultural aspects tend to shut down. These cities disable this symbolic "storage" mechanism and do the oposit. The cities already have a defined version that as you start to fill it up with your own personal manifestations it starts to kill them like a virus. As this happens you start to receive the cities already formed concensus.

   As all this may be so the common thing is a grey area between both the cities effects. Anthropology acctually studies this manifestation in cities, well ancient ones. So much can be told culturally from a city. It can translate or show a way of living, religion, language, law, politics, etc. Cities can influence you greatly, and you can influence it as well some more than other but still, your city is a part of you as much as you are a part of it.