It is also because the memories and attachments that local subjects have to their neighborhoods and street names, to their favorite walkways and street scapes, to their times and places for congregating and escaping are often at odds with the needs of the nation-state for regulated public life. Further, it is the nature of local life to develop partly by contrast to other localities by producing its own contexts of alterity (spatial, social, and technical), contexts that may not meet the needs for spatial and social standardization prerequisite for the modern subject-citizen.