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Place lens: Albany

A state capital: state offices and their contractors make daytime traffic and quiet hours that vary block to block, and the university, the hospitals and the service shifts each make a different night. Buses run, but customers are spread out, so a useful courier may own a car and worry about its charger. The river and the winter shape some routes; no neighbourhood is assumed to be on the water. Snow, ice and the plough schedule decide whose machines work on a February morning. Lobbyists' dinners and session weeks bring money in for a few days and leave.

• Albany civic edge tower
• Single roof service gantry