When I read about dense cities like London and New York I always like hearing about very specific places that everyone seems to know about, like say the hot dog seller on 23rd and 5th (that proabably sounds silly to real new yorkers, because I just made it up)

That density of millions of people spending years in one huge city, perhaps inhabiting parts of it at different times but always still the city, memories tied to postboxes, subway exists and bus rides. That’s something I’ve never really experienced, except when I was younger and your only notion of the world is everyone you’ve met and the places in your neighbourhood, like the benches, parks and every other meeting place. As you get older you inhabit more places, perhaps with less intesity so they become mundane and not like a place at all but simply a street.

How do some places become more familiar and overlapped? Is it the repetition of living, or do we need to fill locations with memories before they become real and familiar places