A narrow corridor of pre-Meridian architecture preserved — some say imprisoned — within the megacity's northward expansion, the Vestige is a six-block stretch of late 20th and early 22nd century residential and commercial buildings that a coalition of preservation interests, academic institutions, and wealthy nostalgia investors have maintained in a state of deliberate historical stasis. The buildings have been reinforced, weatherproofed, and in some cases entirely reconstructed from archival photographs, but they are kept deliberately free of visible modern infrastructure. Power and data lines run beneath the streets. Climate control is hidden inside original-looking facade elements. The effect is unsettling — a pocket of another era surrounded on all sides by Meridian's towers.