This is almost beautiful…

But it has no people in it. A city is not buildings; a city is people. A forest filled with people (such as Matthew Stadler describes in Where We Live Now: an annotated reader) is much more of a city than what we see in the video—buildings, incomplete buildings, crumbling buildings.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...