Ken Taylor. Photo by Tegan Dolstra.
The quiet personalities of our cities are in danger of being buried under the noise of the concrete jungle, writes TEGAN DOLSTRA. Do you have a special place that you associate with your identity? It might be your home town, the field where you won the grand final, the place you went to school or the lookout where you had your first kiss. Once you start to think about it, you'll find you have a wonderfully varied jigsaw of places that are part of you. No matter how insignificant - the place where your shopping bag split or your shoe once fell off while crossing the road - it is human nature to form attachments to physical spaces. The technical term for such places is 'cultural landscapes'. And they are all around us. But as our cities erupt in jagged skyscrapers, the subtle personalities of our cities are in danger of fading away.
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