Psychogeography

Hegelian terminology

Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Man of the Crowd.

The Practice of Everyday Life. Taking New York as his subject, de Certeau provides a useful distinction between the street-level gaze of the walker and the panoptical perspective of the voyeur,

the tradition of writer as walker

‘The study of the specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organised or not, on the emotions and behaviour of individuals.’2

wealth and respectability conceal the existence of poverty and depravity.

remapping of London through an alignment of those churches designed by the architect Nicholas Hawksmoor.

represented by the motif of the imaginary voyage, a journey that reworks and re-imagines the layout of the urban labyrinth and which records observations of the city streets as it passes through them.

Paris, the figure of the solitary stroller who both records and comes to symbolize the emergence of the modern city has a name – the flâneur.