Psychogeography

Psychogeography as "the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals." - Guy Debord ...more

Psychogeography (Pocket Essential series)
London Orbital
Wanderlust: A History of Walking
The Rings of Saturn
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Psychogeography: Disentangling the Modern Conundrum of Psyche and Place
Invisible Cities
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
Hawksmoor
The Poetics of Space
Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
Lights Out for the Territory: 9 Excursions in the Secret History of London
The Old Straight Track (Its Mounds, Beacons, Moats, Sites and Mark Stones)
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Lud Heat: A Book of Dead Hamlets
Invisible Cities by Italo CalvinoThe Flaneur by Edmund WhiteLondon by Peter AckroydThe Old Ways by Robert MacfarlaneGuy Debord and the Situationist International by Tom McDonough
Psychogeography
211 books — 41 voters
London Orbital by Iain SinclairRadon Daughters  by Iain SinclairHackney, That Rose-Red Empire by Iain SinclairAmerican Smoke by Iain SinclairEdge of the Orison by Iain Sinclair
The Best of Iain Sinclair
20 books — 1 voter

John the Balladeer by Manly Wade WellmanWisconsin Death Trip by Michael LesyShades of Murder by Charlie HudsonGuidance to Death by Daniel V. Meier Jr.The Fool Killer by Helen Eustis
North American Otherly Pastoral
28 books — 4 voters
The White People and Other Weird Stories by Arthur MachenStag Boy by William RaynerThe Old Weird Albion by Justin HopperGhostland by Edward ParnellEngland on Fire by Stephen Ellcock
Psychick Albion
76 books — 6 voters

The New Homeowner's Guide to House Spirits by Alexei Maxim RussellTales from the Black Meadow by Chris   LambertMarshland by Gareth E. ReesOn Walking by Phil    SmithThe Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
The best mythogeographic list ever!
126 books — 16 voters
The Quest for College Heights by Sherman LewisGlasgow's Secret Geometry by Harry BellThe Land That Never Was by Vasily PasetskyThe Secret Plan of Canberra by Peter ProudfootBolivia, as the Insidious Author and Persistent Perpetrator o... by Hinton Rowan Helper
•Kenocartographobia
101 books — 2 voters

Jonathan Lethem
there was language everywhere; you could read the city, the city was a grammar
Jonathan Lethem

Peter Ackroyd
The rest I omit, for many a bitter Pill can be swallowed under a golden Cover: I make no Mencion that in each of my Churches I put a Signe so that he who sees the Fabrick may see also the Shaddowe of the Reality of which it is the Pattern or Figure. Thus, in the church of Lime-house, the nineteen Pillars in the Aisles will represent the Names of Baal-Berith, the seven Pillars of the Chappell will signify the Chapters of his Covenant. All those who wish to know more of this may take up Clavis Sal ...more
Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor

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