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The work reported in subsequent chapters begins with the assumption that places, like people, have their own personalities. I fully concur with sociologist Anselm Strauss that “the entire complex of urban life can be thought of as a person rather than a distinctive place, and the city can be endowed with a personality of its own.” Places are marked by their own cultures and sub-cultures, each with their unique temporal fingerprints. 
-- preface xvii