I’ve always had an amateurish interest in cities: how they work, how they’re built, what makes one likeable and another not. Walking around a new place, seeing new types of buildings and how things are organized, is one of my favorite things to do.
In college, I came across Guy Debord and Situationism, and became interested in the concept of the dérive, which gave a cool, avant-garde, and sort of subversive edge to walking around. My closest friends at the time and I actually spent most of our time walking around the small city where we we went to school.
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