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Laurence Mitchell
Writer and photographer based in Norwich, UK-
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Tag Archives: urban flora
Botanising the asphalt
The German philosopher and literary critic Walter Benjamin referred to the unwitting psychogeographical practices of the urban flâneur as that of ‘botanising the asphalt’: a way of experiencing the city as a repository of collective memory by means of a … Continue reading
Posted in Human Geography, wildlife
Tagged botany, psychogeography, urban flora, Walter Benjamin
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