The City and the World Spawn their journeys coalesce into a

their journeys coalesce into a riveting milieu characterized by brutal debates and desires as fraught as they are compulsive

You are part of something that's bigger than yourself

What you believe about God sets the foundation of the person you will become

this time she will be the one who disappears

Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress

The City and the World Spawn their journeys coalesce into aIn The City and the World, Gregor Hens explores the city in the twenty first century a space we shape and are shaped by in turn and our place within it. Travelling from Berlin to Las Vegas, Shenzhen to Santiago de Chile, he moves through these pulsing, ever expanding cityscapes, reading, walking, swimming, riding the metro and catching the bus, bearing witness to the strange vitality of urban life. Everywhere, catalysts for new understandings emerge.