"I'd like to think of the city as a tree. It doesn't move around—at least not yet, in our current era—but its interior is alive, dynamic; full of layered growth rings in which the most diverse kinds of fluids and elements run. Trees grow and evolve, they can live for thousands of years and abridge varied species, just like a city. I would like to imagine my city as an ancient sequoia, vigorous and robust in its almost one thousand years of life. But, just like trees, cities fall victim to parasites, leeches, fungoid bodies, and whatever other opportunistic organisms lurk under their shading leaves; and, in the same way as cities, trees rot from inside out..."