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![Our plagued cities increasingly resemble Calvino’s Procopia, a city so crowded that the crush of bodies hides its façade, and even the sky, or, perhaps more aptly, Laudomia, where the land of “the living becomes crowded and expand[s]...” even as “the expanse of tombs increases beyond the walls"](https://assets.telegraphindia.com/telegraph/09c6b164-46fc-4a09-bc6b-a616116de5d9.jpg)