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As regards alleyways: throughfare for humans. No cars. Walled in, narrow. The theater of choice for drug users, piss, derelicts, bottles. But also lovers arm-in-arm. Europe has fully romanticized the cobble alley, with laundry hanging off wrought iron banisters and all. The go-to mise-en-scene for stabbings, shady deals, muggings, beatings, the death of hobos wrapped in newspapers, etc. But why? Because they are uncommodified spaces. Spaces where unauthorized proceedings proceed. The most raunchy and luminous of graffitis.  

Finest alleys of the world.

It behooves the fringe to keep that reputation too; the enclosure of alleys by hoydy-toydy cantinas only gentrifies a relatively free space for the non-owners of this world.