The Death of Imagination

Almost. I was thinking about Bukhara again, and realising that the bit of it that I "know" is basically a collection of open-air museum buildings. I could also claim to "know" Ayutthaya, Merv and Nisa (the bits that are archaeological sites), but "knowing" them is trivial: their total surviving, "knowable" street plan comprises a few blocks each. The living towns attached to some of them? Not so much.