Volume VII

Haunted Cities

A street remembers by staying where it is.

Volume VII is the urban volume: topographic views, fire-insurance plans, demolition photographs and the enormous printed record of cities changing faster than anybody could describe them. Its Entities are attached to coordinates rather than to people. They classify as Procession, because they move only in the way a district moves: slowly, and by being replaced.

Records 0607 to 0707. Several records here name a building that no longer exists. The source institution is cited for the plan, never for the haunting.

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A section of a colour-coded fire insurance atlas showing a city block, in which one narrow lot is left uncoloured and unlabelled between two hatched buildings.

ENTITY 0607Bone

The Tenant of Lot 14

Municipal Absence

A long exposure looking down a covered shopping arcade the week before demolition, in which the figures walking through have blurred into vertical smears of light.

ENTITY 0690Bone

The Last Photograph of the Arcade

Crowd Residue