How can the city be sensed, understood and expressed in film animation techniques that involve handmade physical material?

I am inspired by the piazza, the public space of the city, a place of encounters, planned and random; by buildings that have been touched and by streets that have been stepped upon by people who are here or gone; by lively conversations in cafés about politics and love that spill onto the sidewalks; by the fleeting, pensive or suggestive glances that weave the city. I am inspired by the movement of it all, its animation. I wish to assemble all of its pieces, craft them with my own hands and make it live again, frame by frame.