ABSTRACT
What is that identifi es a city? Where is the feeling or sense of that identity located? Could
that sense of identity – no matter how it was discovered – be generalized? The encounter
with a city endures within attempts to articulate that experience within writing. Equally,
an encounter with a specifi c city – once it admits the possibility of generalization – may
become productive within design. Walter Benjamin continued to work through the city.1
