A city showcases the industry, energy and cultural diversity of a country. The advertising hoardings, the bustling workers, the architecture and galleries show a country at its best and worst. Cities amplify the differences in wealth and poverty, slums and extravagant living, beggars and businessmen and show them warily co-existing. No city shows this more graphically than Mumbai.
I have separated New York from the rest of America as I feel it is an entity in its own right. |