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Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
4.0

Kublai Khan and Marco Polo.

“There is the city in the shape of Amsterdam, a semicircle facing north, with concentric canals — the princes’, the emperor’s, the nobles’; there is the city in the shape of York, set among the high moors, walled, bristling with towers; there is the city in the shape of New Amsterdam known also as New York, crammed with towers of glass and steel on an oblong island between two rivers, with streets like deep canals, all of them straight, except Broadway.”