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Exploring Psychogeography in Manchester by Paul Griffin is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This document discusses the concept of psychogeography and how people experience urban spaces. It describes how maps from different time periods can provide disjointed experiences of a city, and how writers like Defoe and de Quincey represented transformed experiences of London through fiction and drugs. The concept of the flaneur, or detached observer of city streets, originated in 19th century London. The Situationists later engaged with cities in a physical way through derives, or drifts, to challenge sp

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Paul Griffin

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