
Little Venice quay flooded with tourists. Mykonos island. Cyclades, Aegean Sea, Greece. Mstyslav Chernov/Wikimedia Common. All rights reserved.
“With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.”
- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities