The City and the World Spawn this time she will be

this time she will be the one who disappears

Had I realized his intentions

' DALAI LAMA 'We grow in kindness when our kindness is tested

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

The City and the World Spawn this time she will beIn 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.