Organisms die like you and me. But cities have the feature to reinvent themselves -before they get the critical stage-. Cities can be reinvented by their innovative inhabitants.
Let´s see an example. Did you watch the London Olympic Games Opening Ceremony? The film director Danny Boyle designed an spectacle telling the common history of the town. From this to this, we assisted to the transformation of a city:
Commencing with the structurer Thames River and the maritime heritage of the heart of London, we saw a green and rural essence of the original city represented by a pastoral and turfed hill that remained the whole ceremony. Then appeared romantic visionaries and victorian lords to handle the Industrial Revolution, and big engines and smokestacks rising from the ground, replacing the turf by a dark plot and turning the scene into a dark and polluted pandemonium. It stopped and emerged industrial workers and the city representative social movements of the modern era, finally contributing hugely to our global culture.
Some cities have always been there. London is one of them.
And a rain of Mary Poppins:
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