“All cities are geological. You can’t take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within a closed landscape whose landmarks constantly draw us toward the past. Certain shifting angles, certain receding perspectives, allow us to glimpse original conceptions of space, but this vision remains fragmentary. It must be sought in the magical locales of fairy tales and surrealist writings — castles, endless walls, little forgotten bars, mammoth caverns, casino mirrors.”

Ivan Chtcheglov, Formulary for a New Urbanism 1953