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In E.B White’s “Crossing the Street”, White shows how New Yorkers never trust the city streets surrounding them by when crossing the street always looking in the direction of where the cars come from and glancing towards where the cars will not come from. White labels this observation as “…an indication that people can never quite trust the self inflicted cosmos, and that they dimly suspect that some day, in the maze of well regulated vehicles and strong straight buildings, something will go completely crazy”(196). In this respect White is showing how urban dwellers challenge the structure and seemingly immaculate organization of city planners by never completley trusting thier surroundings. In other words, city dwellers will never have complete trust in the city surrounding them; they will always maintain an internal guard and apprehension. In Whites piece “Moving”, it is implied that city dwellers always leave their mark on the city in little ways, thus making it their own. “…People must inevitably leave something of themselves behind- something besides the mere residue of dust and bent paper clips and fallen coat hangers”(198). These dwellers take on a similar role to Certeau’s walkers, “…whose bodies follow the thicks and thins of an urban ‘text’ they write without being able to read it” (128). As the dwellers both walk and live in the city they unknowingly make it their own and change the imprinted structure put in place by those who planned the city.These dwellers do so by inhabiting every aspect of the city from the streets to their apartment, and in turn make their surroundings what they want it to be.