the films of Patrick Keiller.

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

all share a perception of the city as a site of mystery and seek to reveal the true nature that lies beneath the flux of the everyday.

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

Rimbaud was to coin the verb robinsonner, meaning to travel mentally,

the tradition of writer as walker

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

Patrick Keiller’s films London and Robinson in Space

writers such as Defoe, de Quincey, Robert Louis Stevenson and Arthur Machen, paints a uniformly dark picture of the city as the site of crime, poverty and death.