This weeks weekly photo challenge wants a picture which represents the urban quality of the city/town you live in.
The city i live in is a post industrial, post communist, multicultural city, originally known as the city of four cultures ( Polish Russian, German and Jewish). One of the things which you could say represents this in a portrait would be the mixture of bright shining new hotels next to old collapsing tenement houses. For me though this city has something else, it is a city which is redeveloping itself based on its past. It is slowly taking this grey buildings and giving them a face lift through careful restoration. It is a city which has engaged its textile heritage and holds bi-annual fashion weeks. It looks at the innovation of the past and showcases the best design and photography in both its design and photography festivals not to mention a comic book and gaming festival. It is a city that may longer be the second largest in the country and may not have the wealth of others but is a great city at the cross roads of Europe.
My Image for the urban topic tries to capture this new growth while slowly blurring the stereotypes attached to it.
Aperture64 
beautifully dreamy
it is quite isn’t it. thanks for your comment.