Cities
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.
Merlin Coverley • Psychogeography
How Buildings Learn
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In 1980, Dolores Hayden asked: What would a non-sexist city look like?
Her vision wasn’t just housing tweaks — it was collective kitchens, childcare woven into neighborhoods, safer streets, and cities planned around care instead of commutes.
40+ years later, why do our cities still feel hostile to... See more
instagram.comNeuropolis: Our relationship with cities from Mumbai to Manhattan. As our cities change, they inspire a change in us: "A new generation of explorers, cyclists and psychogeographers are remapping urban landscapes through non-places. In this expanding urban maze, waymarks — as ever — are key to community cohesion ." Cities are described as "an... See more
Weidenfeld & Nicolson • You Are Here: A Brief Guide to the World
a “passionate spectator” who “enters into the crowd as though it were an immense reservoir of electrical energy.”
The Art of Being a Flâneur (Published 2023)
The crowd is the flâneur’s indispensable counterpart: the crowd turns people into observable objects . In Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Man in the Crowd’ the protagonist pursues an intriguing figure through the streets of London for a whole night without ever being able to see his face: in big cities, one can stroll through busy streets without... See more
Alexander • August Flânerie
