Imaginative Reflections

A photograph of the dining room in the Pera Palace Hotel.

A photograph of the Pera Palace hotel around 1990.

Aside from the three cities that we have examined in this analysis, other keys cities that fall into the same cultural constructs that Boston, Berlin, and Moscow do. Cities like Istanbul and Mumbai are heavily influenced by the people that inhabit the city. While that is seemingly an obvious statement, imagine any city, but erase the people in it. What does it become? 

A shell.

A city without its people isn’t really a city at all. The buildings, the accents, the cultural quirks… All come from the people within a city, be it the rumbling streets of Mumbai or the East-meets-West city of Istanbul. The conglomeration of people in any world city, be it tourists or just a diverse demographic make up, contribute to the unique essence of every major point on a map.