Alternative "Citizens" of the City

"Innumerable ways of playing and foiling the other's game, that is, the space instituted by others, characterize the subtle, stubborn, resistant activity of groups which, since they lack their own space, have to get along in a network of already established forces and representations. . . . there is a skill that has its connoisseurs and its esthetics exercised in any labyrinth of powers, a skill ceaselessly recreating opacities and ambiguities--spaces of darkness and  trickery--in the universe of technocratic transparency" (de Certeau, 18)."The Rat Paths of New York"Lots of "Walking New York" stories linked on the side of this article!