Living the Everyday City

Abstract

A small group of us stand on the roof of our inner city studio block on a late February morning in 2012 and watch the fire engines hoist a ladder about 100 metres away further and further into the sky.¹ A slow and deep burn guts for hours the distinctive green- and blue-fronted building on the corner of two adjacent streets, leaving behind an eerie film-set facade complete with scorched palm trees (Figure 8.1).