"I moved to Prague, the 'Golden City', in 1994 to study at the Academy of Art. It was a mere five years after the Velvet Revolution and the 'City of a hundred spires' was a very different place then. Decades of communist rule still cast a long shadow over the city and its inhabitants and many of the historical buildings had been left to rot. The city was a jumble of sooty dereliction, blackened by decades of coal fired heating and many of inner city buildings needed wooden supports to hold up walls and facades..."
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