each city is an archetype rather than a prototype*

- Excuse me, where can i buy the newspaper nearby?
- There's a store there, when you turn left but I don't known if it's still open, it's after 1pm.
- Oh!, i see, this is not really a metropolitan city.
- Yes, that’s one of our problems.

Praça das Flores, 17.01.2009

* Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown, Learning from Las Vegas