Cities and Memory

Something that has lingered from our class discussions and readings is an excerpt we read from Invisible Cities: 'The city consists of relationships between the measurements of its space and the events of the past... As this wave from memories flows in, the city soaks it up like a sponge and expands.... The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand.'  

The story of a place/event that comes about by its telling and which in somecases precede or overshadow a place. Connections that can exist even through a foreigner, for example knowing the stories through the media. This can give an really finely tuned sense and perception of what a place might be.  
eg The nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, or the bakery from Sex and the City in New York.

Magnolia Bakery in Manhattan, New York

Could be an area worth investigating for mapping?? The stories that might precede a place of water.