This article has been building up in my head for a fairly long time now. I can probably trace it back to midnight on the 3rd of July, 2012. Sitting on the 70th floor of the Rockafeller Centre in New York as the wind swept across the viewing gallery, the tiny bits of light from buildings and cars interspersed around the huge grid that is Manhattan combined in my head to form the gears of a well - oiled machine: one that was single-handedly running the world economy and bringing to life the dreams of a million people. There is a strange magic in the way cities seem to inspire ambition in the minds of young people everywhere.
What is it about cities?
