The Sum of All Cities

Cities are often defined by numbers; population, cost of living, crime rate, temperature, GDP… by themselves, those numbers are just that. Your basic statistics. But look behind a number and you’ll find a story. And that story will lead you to another number. And that number reveals another story and that story connects to another number… and before you know it you’ve got the sum of a city. From the amount of shrimp eaten in Las Vegas, to the number of bird species in Panama City, and the spread of the yurt district in Ulaanbaatar, cosmetic surgery rates in Seoul and the length of the Aurora Borealis in Whitehorse