Soul City Wandering

<p>The aim of Soul City Wandering is to guide individuals towards embracing their urban environment by encouraging interaction between time place and emotion or engagement with a journey.<br />As such Soul City Wandering is a gateway into the world of psychogeography a comparatively modern label for the act of experiencing your surroundings on a sensory level.<br />The model is London. A city so complex crowded and consuming that it’s easy to feel disoriented disenchanted and disconnected.<br />Fusing history music and poetry the author invites readers to rediscover the capital its streets its structures and its soul.<br />The main ‘pilgrimage’ is an easily navigable route combining walking and public transport. It links twelve highly evocative places and uses lyrical expression to amplify a sensory perception of the city. <br />This book is not about ‘hidden London’. Most of the locations are well-known. They have been selected because they have a strong ‘synergy’. That is spaces where the interaction of multiple agents or events produces an effect greater than the sum of their individual significance. <br />Two further models of this concept are included. Both are London-themed but a little more compact: ‘Romancing the British Museum’ is an exploration of that institution’s influence on poetry while ‘Ghosts of Swinging London’ is a jaunt around Soho focusing on its impact on rock ’n’ roll. <br />In addition hints and tips have been added to help readers create their own experiences.</p>