Writing about cities

Neuropolis: 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

But walking in a European city in a brown body feels audacious and the pleasure often conditional.

Skin too is a passport.

Contempla los paisajes de la gran ciudad, paisajes de piedras acariciadas por la bruma o golpeadas por la violencia del sol. Disfruta de los bellos carruajes, de los fieros caballos, de la limpieza deslumbrante de los bo tones, de la destreza de los lacayos, de los andares de las mujeres ondu lantes, de

You walk into the folds of the city with a desire to roam, building a repository of memories that become cartographers over time.

when you're often reminded that the country in which you live will never fully embrace you as its citizen, when your movement between frontiers has been conditional for most of your life, you develop an embodied understanding of how you occupy space in places and move with a unique sense of awareness and respect

Baudelaire’s flâneur walked the streets of nineteenth-century Paris chronicling the theatre of urban life. Woolf’s flâneuse was an oyster of perceptiveness. The act of wandering in her words was street haunting.

o read Of Cities & Women is to wander through a city in search of an “open space, a privileged place where the free line of the horizon creates a pure pleasure.”