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The image that anchors this article is of an all-day cafe in Rome’s Trastevere neighborhood called Bar San Calisto.
This specific place, the immediate neighborhood, and the larger city define what it means to be not merely urban, but vibrant and urban. It epitomizes what Jane Jacobs called the “organized complexity” of cities.
A whole host of planned and unplanned elements coming together to create an organic whole. The merging of spontaneity and structure at its best. A dance you only find in seemingly chaotic, but somehow nervous system-settling cities.
If you love cities, you likely have your own Bar San Calisto.
In the City Life publication on Medium, we want to hear about your Bar San Calisto.
Stories about your experience living in and visiting the world’s great cities, urban places and spaces.
To get a better feel for what this publication could be, here’s a bit about me followed by specifics on what we’re looking for in City Life.
My name is Rocco Pendola. I have been writing on Medium since 2020. While I write mostly about money — specifically personal finance strategies for those of us who will Never Retire — I interject my passion for city life into much of my writing.
I grew up in Niagara Falls, New York. A stone’s throw away from Buffalo and Toronto. Two cities — one underrated, the other a bonafied and rightfully glorified world city — where I spent a lot of time as a teenager.
However, when I moved from home at age 19, I settled in what amounts to suburban South Florida. Because, as much as I was enamored by Buffalo and Toronto, I always thought the city was where other people lived. Either the poor or ultra rich.
Working in radio, I traveled around North America a lot between 19 and 24 years of age, visiting places such as Montreal and Chicago and living in South Florida, Pittsburgh, Dallas, and Las Vegas. It wasn’t until early 1999 — when I was 23 — that I decided I not only could, but absolutely should be a city dweller myself.
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