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The Concentration City The Concentration City "The Concentration City" is a dystopian short story by British author J. G. Ballard, first published, under the title "Build-Up", in "New Worlds" volume 19 number 55 in January 1957. It was reprinted in the collections "Billennium" and "Chronopolis" and later, under its revised title, in "The Disaster Area" and "". "The Concentration City" is set in a "city" encompassing everything in known existence to its inhabitants. The districts comprise endless streets and buildings and seemingly infinitely high and low levels, or floors, with few trees and little wildlife. Cubic space is in shortage and expensive. High