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What would it look like if we built a city whose very concept is that it is not permanent? A city without a permanent identity, where everyone can contribute their buildings – and their names? A city founded on active participation, which grows and changes alongside those who live there. A city that is never the same. Little by little, the small town grows into a city like any other. It takes shape from tags – the graffiti artists’ own names – and creates an alphabet for new words and sentences, new cities.

City of Names resembles as much an urban-theoretical study as a journalistic experiment. Meira Ahmemulic’s debut book describes a city’s rise and fall in images and words. It is a highly original debut.