While researching notable cities earlier I started to read about places that have certain real events associated with them, rather than just landmarks or films. And of course there are a lot more of these that are terrible than those that are good, so morbidly I think I will be focusing on cities associated with large scale attacks and death. I don't feel that places like this get much coverage anywhere really as I suppose people would rather not think about them, which is basically precisely why I want to make people think about them. The main inspiration for this came from reading an article on Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the man who survived both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Even referring to the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki just by mentioning their names proves my point, as the disasters are associated so directly with them they are a singular thing in our minds, even though both of those cities are still home to thousands of real people today we still only think of them as the site of particular disasters from history.
This intrinsic association between city and event is a concept that I am focusing on as the main inspiration for this brief. This article on Tsutomu Yamaguchi illustrates that these events have a profoundly personal effect as well as becoming cemented in all of our history as a collective. All of us know about them but barely any of us understand them, and that is also an idea I want to explore further.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/nagasaki-anniversary-meet-tsutomu-yamaguchi-the-man-who-survived-both-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-10447342.html
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