Psychogeography

London is overlaid by the fictional and poetic reworking of successive figures, creating patterns of continuity and resonance that can be detected by those attuned to the city’s eternal and unchanging rhythms.

the act of urban wandering, the spirit of political radicalism, allied to a playful sense of subversion and governed by an inquiry into the methods by which we can transform our relationship to the urban environment.

wealth and respectability conceal the existence of poverty and depravity.

the tradition of writer as walker

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

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.

Patrick Keiller’s films London and Robinson in Space

Hegelian terminology

Hawksmoor

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