Walking Cities: London
eBook - ePub

Walking Cities: London

  1. 414 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Walking Cities: London

About this book

Walking Cities: London (second edition) brings together a new interdisciplinary field of artists, writers, architects, musicians, human geographers and philosophers to consider how a city walk informs and triggers new processes of making, thinking, researching and communicating. In particular, the book examines how the city contains narratives, knowledge and contested materialities that are best accessed through the act of walking.

The varied contributions take the form of short stories, illustrated essays, personal reflections and accounts of walks both real and fictional. While artist and RCA tutor Rut Blees Luxemburg and philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy recount a nocturnal journey from Shoreditch to the City of London; architect Peter St John of the practice Caruso St John offers a detailed and personal reflection on the Holloway Road; and architect and author Douglas Murphy examines what he calls London's 'more politically charged locations' in his account of a solitary walk through an area of South London. Ultimately, Walking Cities: London seeks to understand the wider significance of changing geographies to generate critical questions and creative perspectives for navigating the social and political impact of rapid urban change.

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Yes, you can access Walking Cities: London by Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Simon King, Amy Blier-Carruthers, Roberto Bottazzi, Jaspar Joseph-Lester,Simon King,Amy Blier-Carruthers,Roberto Bottazzi in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Urban Planning & Landscaping. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Index

Abbeyfield estate 151
Ader, ‘Bas Jan’ 345
Adolphus, Prince, Duke of Cambridge 314
Africa 228
Afrikiko club 155
airports 110–14
Aitchison, Jim, Shibboleth 314
Alaska Furs 192
Albany Road 156
Albert Memorial 337
Aldersgate Street 53
Aldgate East station 11, 344, 345, 346
Alexandra Palace 304
All London Squatters 174, 181
All Saints church, Putney 320
Alloa Road 29
Alperton 363
Amati, Andrea 314–15
violin 313–15
Amin, Ash 52–3
Ancient Foresters pub 151
Angel, Islington 20
anomie, urban 47
Anthropocene 3, 63, 64
Antoli, Rosana, Choreography of Resistance 352–3
Apollodorus of Damascus 248
Arcalis, Erola 346
Argent PLC 120–4
Aristotle, Physics 237
art galleries 267–8, 285–6
artwashing 40
Asda 155
Aspinden Street 154
Australia 228, 229
aviation 110–12
Aylesbury Estate 32–5, 36, 37, 38, 156, 158
Bach, Johann Sebastian 307
Sonatas and Partitas 318
Bachelard, ...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Site
  8. Night
  9. Writing
  10. Monuments
  11. Music
  12. Dialogue
  13. Notes on Contributors
  14. Index
  15. Index of Places
  16. Acknowledgements