Megacities and urban agglomerations are often associated with a promise of salvation: they entice with the promise of enabling individual and collective creativity, strength, and innovation. They promise individuals a different kind of life, improved quality of life, and, in some cases, social advancement. Sometimes these promises become veritable promises of salvation: here, your life will begin to shine and you will find salvation. So: "Let's go downtown!"
This paper reconstructs this postsecularity and the promises of salvation inherent in the choreography of urban space. It elaborates on how fictions of wholeness are embodied in it, stimulating an improvement in quality of life. It also shows how zones of invisibility arise in urban subzones an niches, in which precarious life settles and is made invisible in the greatness of the city. In the heaven of urban salvation, one is simultaneously in hell's kitchen. This analysis of the postsecularity of urban spaces is carried out using the examples of Penn Station in New York and Kensington Road in Philadelphia, USA.