When we think of global cities we often think of architectural landmarks—Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower, the Golden Gate Bridge. These architectural idioms often act as visual metaphors for the cities at large, serving as tangible examples of cultural heritage.
But cultural heritage doesn’t have to be physical. Just ask Shakespeare. In his play Coriolanus, the bard wrote, “What is the city but the people?” Indeed, sometimes cultural heritage is intangible, invisible for 90 percent of the year.
