Vulcan city of stone and glass

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As we begin to leave the Holocene epoch, basic elements will possibly become active again and start flowing forth to start life once more on its endless cycle. A stroll down Hyde St, with its shimmering sprays of glass on its pavements, would possibly indicate a yearning for this more fluid state, a subconscious desire for a molten city once more. Burlington Street still has exposed rock faces to marvel at and provide us with an ossified view back into the future. These rock gashes have complimentary stone gutters and walls, and iron fences that contain us and direct us along the crushed agrigate pathways and carriageway. This ferrous material seemingly providing a magnatised directional pull up and down the street that we cannot resist. It is probably no accident that the sister cities, Dunedin and Edinburgh, have a common volcanic base on which these cities were built upon, and that people seemingly gravitated between these two poles