Coda

In the course of this exploration, we have seen many aspects of a city cum symphony. The map is the score (Bombay), poems about the city are the libretto (Moscow), and we've seen it come together in an actual symphony depicting the city (Berlin). 

De Certeau pointed to the citizens of a city as inadvertently writing an illegible text. Yet, we have seen that there are ways of some citizens writing quite legible texts in order to depict those  figuratively illegible texts. The populous is the raw material for the symphony. We saw a cartographer curate the tempo of a city through a map, a poet curate a mood of the city through a libretto, and a filmmaker assign symphonic movements to different parts of the day. 

To finish, let's enjoy a less curated version of an urban symphony, one that couples one "written" text, a song, with the unwritten and nonsensical collisions of paths that New Yorkers took this day outside the HSBC bank: