"Kicks" is that kind of fascinatingly uneven indie only children of gritty urban life know how to make when they're ready to pick up a camera and engage with their past.
But these common urban birds still know how to get through tight spaces.
If we hope to successfully manage urban environmental impacts, we first need to know how urban areas are distributed and how that distribution varies around the world.
Claudia Kincaid, I learned, was even sassier than the Baby-sitters Club's Claudia Kishi, with a keen urban know-how.
And, unlike countries, cities are not hobbled by issues of sovereignty, points out Benjamin Barber, of City University of New York in his book, "If Mayors Ruled the World".Though its first partnership with the Chinese government on the building of an industrial park in the city of Suzhou in the 1990s took time to bed in, Singapore's government is marketing its urban know-how.
"I don't know how an urban population will look at this.
I didn't know how the urban environment would look, but I wasn't surprised by the things I saw.
It is hard to know how many urban running crews there are, but many of them post photos to Instagram, then follow one another's exploits online.
"There have been all these prevailing stereotypes, and people don't know how big and urban Chicago actually is.
Give it to the skateboarders and BMX kids – the people they shoo away from these areas – because these are the people who actually know how to use urban areas.
In order to increase the levels of physical activity in urban population, it is essential to know how a behavioural change towards cycling as active mobility can be produced and what factors influence people in their choice to cycle.
