The city is read from the bottom up

An old book is someone else's life: a dog-eared corner and a forgotten ticket speak of the reader. The steep street is no accident: the city climbed because of water, defense, and the price of land. A stone is dated by its masonry—the size of the block and the joint will tell the age as well as a document. Climb up and see: from above, you can see how the city grew in rings.