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"In the absence of a place where a genuine reinvention happens, an honest substitute will be a city that shelters a fiction of the reinvention that never occurred. A city that assumes the external appearance of the expectations of those who sought it, leading them to believe in a battle won. A city that is benign to those for whom nothing changes except the belief that something important has changed, and who euphorically begin to build a life on that certainty."

Alexandre Andrade (translated from Portuguese)