The cultural uses of the A-Z London street atlas: navigational performance and the imagining of urban form

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The cultural uses of the A-Z London street atlas: navigational performance and the imagining of urban form

For a decade from the late 1990s, the A-Z London street atlas became a recurrent motif within art works and popular media texts. This essay collates and explores these cultural responses to the atlas, to consider what this might reveal about the affective dimensions of ordinary urban way-finding. Th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hornsey, R.
Format:	Article
Published:	SAGE 2016
Subjects:	A-Z cartography imagined communities London way-finding
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32550/

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