Secondly, Copenhagen is endowed with glorious, imagination-inspiring landmarks: soaring spires, grand residences, waterfront warehouses in a kaleidoscope of colours and turreted castles straight from fairytales.
But that was part of the man, and anyway none of it matters alongside the memories and the surviving images of that glorious athleticism and courageous imagination.
It is a film that plumbs the dark recesses of all our imaginations: dangerous, glorious, absurd, vivid and terrifying by turns.
These associative and often sound-driven collages, many of which implicitly explore themes of dislocation and assimilation, are propelled by Yau's explosive imagination, in whose glorious starbursts no end of surprise and delight may be found.
Elsewhere we've been submerged in Denver producer Gila's Slumber Session for i-D, an hour of roof-raising rattles from Project Pablo, a glorious trip to the otherworldly imagination of Eden Rock and some dark and devastating clanks from the Apeiron Crew courtesy of Crack.
"The thing is, a hallmark is a glorious thing for a kid whose imagination is easily whipped up by the thought of treasure," he said.
Watching him on stage is an exhilarating hurtle through the strange flumes of his imagination; he specialises in glorious freeform nonsense.
Will we see a new Athens, with a glorious burst of intellectual innovation and unleashed imagination as people are freed from toil?
