Over the last 10 years, Leicester's new breed of town planners have been slowly reclaiming the city for people by nibbling away at the space dedicated to motorists.
A great number of Brazilian footballers, Pelé included, were either born or bred in towns and cities that are landlocked.
All across this country, regular Americans who were born and bred in towns where a gay couple wouldn't dare walk down a street--all over these American Main Streets--something is changing.
Born and bred in the town and the youngest of 10 children, he was not even born when brother Eddie won the Challenge Cup with St Helens at Wembley in 1976.
"But we are quite a long way from everywhere," says Tony Duck, who was born and bred in the town and for half a century ran a newsagent's here.
That HBO, under its previous leadership, passed on "Mad Men" while Weiner worked on its biggest hit, leaving the field open for the upstart AMC to reap the glory, is one of those stories that give underdogs of all breeds in this town a reason to get out of bed in the morning.
"No-one can do what Jack did, be born and bred in that town, want that football club to have a good time and to try and entertain the fans.
Born and bred in the town, Smith first served the club as a centre-half, scoring twice in 142 league appearances before going on to represent Hereford United, Leyton Orient, Sheffield Wednesday and, briefly, Port Vale with distinction.
The town bred drug addicts, premature deaths, and weirdos, but I was still too weird for it.
He was certainly a man about town (a breed that is going the way of the Javan rhino), but what town would that be?
