In the Old City,
Baking beneath the simmering heat of a summer’s day,
a cobbled street lies deserted
its shops shuttered
its stones silent
its residents sheltering
waiting for the cool of night to emerge.
“As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor would venture to promise bodily health if he knew that the blood circulation was steadily growing more congested!”
—The Metropolis of Tomorrow, 1929
