Over a period of the last several centuries, not only the architecture of the buildings changed drastically, but landscape of the land did too, if there were any left. The land that was left cost a fortune anymore having become much scarcer as a resource for the world's population. The latter has grown out of any reasonable proportions, since the unplanned pregnancies fostered by the welfare-sponsored incentives of the previous years, manifested themselves in the large growth of the Earth's inhabitants.

I remember that when one looked at the cities' landscape, one could not see any land, and the eye could find no escape from the concrete-jungle of the cement-made-structures. Buildings were jammed together into the cement-blocks without a gap in between them and there was no free space anywhere around the city as far as the eye could see and other than maybe a body of water surrounding the cities, if there was any to begin with. Even then, no one could use that water anymore, for it all was abundant with the animals abandoned by the humans, where the former lived in the only place that were forced into, which fostered them temporarily -- water, which was infected and filthy. These animals, which consisted of the remains of the wild-life mixed up with the former pets thrown away by their previous owners, who could hardly survive themselves, ate on each other, struggling for the survival of the fittest among themselves. Many of them took upon the monster-like appearance, having had to readjust their organisms and many body-parts to their surrounding, due to the changes in climatic and the available water conditions throughout the globe.

Even that filthy water was still a soozing nostalgical reminder of the vast spaces of open land that once covered the Earth and was known to the humans as the large and uncharted oceans. Water reservoir eventually changed its location and completely evaporated in some, while flooded some other regions of the planet Earth. Overpopulation and overdevelopment rapidly changed not only the landscape, but also the very essence of how we all lived and conducted our affairs on a day-to-day basis. If several centuries ago most of life took place down on the ground-level, or on the streets, as we called them and knew them to be, at the time that I am referring to, streets were hardly available for anything. Whether it was for the cities’ inhabitants, or the transportation for the latter, the word sidewalk became equivalent to the word trouble.

Thus and contrary to the Darwin's evolution, people became monkeys living up high among the polluted concrete jungle of the cities which continued to build up as in the former ghettos, and not to expand out, for as I have said, there was no land left to build out on., for it was too scarce for any utility. When one needed to get out of his place of dwelling (if one had any) and get somewhere else, streets were the longest and the most dangerous way around. When the filth was eventually removed from the streets, only those who could pay huge taxes in barter and favors could share the cobblestones with the soldiers who marched over the former echoing in the ears of the entire city. I remember that on average it took a half a day to get from one block to another, and this is only if one were not troubled by the end of his trip full of unexpected ‘surprises’ and danger. Not only that the streets were overwhelmed with the privileged inhabitants who paid big taxes not to see you around them, but the constant presence of the army on them kept one away too.