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How data and technology is changing the way we interact with city infrastructure and what it means for your business. Find out more by downloading our latest report. Visit site. To a significant extent, the richness of art — in any of its many forms — derives from reworking familiar stories, images and thoughts into a new, unfamiliar form which hopefully will resonate with the audience to which it is addressed in a way that the original may no longer do. The process has been going on since time immemorial — Shakespeare was a noted thief of plots from earlier works for his plays — and as T.

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