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

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

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.

The successful navigation of such a city is dependent upon the composition of a mental map, which can be transposed upon its physical layout,

Psychogeography: a beginner’s guide. Unfold a street map of London, place a glass, rim down, anywhere on the map, and draw round its edge. Pick up the map, go out into the city, and walk the circle, keeping as close as you can to the curve. Record the experience as you go, in whatever medium you favour: film, photograph, manuscript, tape. Catch the

Patrick Keiller’s films London and Robinson in Space

dramatise the city as a place of dark imaginings.

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