He asked me to think through the ways in which this urban tradition has affected Uyghur social organization. Uyghur urbanism is still with us. For some it exists in memory; for many it exists in the ways spaces are used. Through familiarity with its estrangement, it comes to feel like a place where making a life is possible. They take us out of spaces of capitalist development into the deep time of Uyghur worlds.