People sitting along a brick sidewalk with buildings in the background.
They are the historians of the city.
They are also the prophets of time.
They have made it their specialty, as architects, engineers, social scientists, political or religious men.
They are charged with organizing the activity of men in power.
They thus privilege spatial relationships. At the very least they attempt to reduce temporal relations to spatial ones through the analytical attribution of a proper place to each particular element and through the combinatory organization of the movements resulting from successive operations.