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Tag Archives: Psychogeography

3D visualisation of Bruce Report: blocks of buildings, green spaces and bridge over river

Unbuilt Glasgow: a city nearly lost

Can a city make you sad and die young? Can a city destroy itself? How Glasgow’s unique mysterious curse was born from a city nearly lost.

October 23, 2019 in Glasgow, History, Psychogeography.
Aircraft carrier in docks

Firth of Forth: walking the coast of witches and war

War machines, tav avoiders, climate change. If you want to escape politics, walking along the Firth of Forth is not the place to do it.

July 30, 2019 in History, Psychogeography, Scotland.
Mosaic of two-faced figure, the god Janus, with opened and closed books and words future and past

Protected! The goddesses of explorers and psychogeographers

Good news for the endless road walkers, night prowlers, urban explorers, psychogeographers, explorers, threshold stalkers. We have our gods and goddesses and we are protected!

November 7, 2017 in History, Psychogeography, Travel.
Two red brick pillars in front of a tunnel underneath a railway line

New Year / Old Year: Remains of an abandoned industrial estate

Urban exploration: wandering the remains of an abandoned industrial estate in search of graffiti art.

January 3, 2017 in Glasgow, Psychogeography, Scotland.
Burnt out car in Glasgow: In our city…torched are the final scene in wind-borne minor noir dramas.

Urban remains: lost worlds, canals and abandoned pubs

Urban exploration by bike: in Glasgow exploring abandoned pubs and the urban remains of a forgotten world of the Forth & Clyde Canal.

November 22, 2016 in Glasgow, History, Psychogeography, Scotland.
The Argyll Stone and St Conval's Chariot

Glasgow-London: two cities, two stones and a lot of myths

A cycle ride to the outer edges of Glasgow finds stones, myths, floating saints, plane twitchers and echoes of one of London’s strangest landmarks.

March 16, 2016 in Glasgow, History, London, Psychogeography, Scotland.
Jim Lambie's Album Pathway at Barrowland Park, Glasgow

Path of memories: we buy rubbish, we sell antiques

Unpeeling the layers of history in east Glasgow; a path of music and art; and a character who opened a massage parlour called Sheik-Ma-Tadger.

January 19, 2016 in Glasgow, History, Psychogeography, Scotland.
Headstone and ivy. Southern Necropolis, Glasgow

Urban remains: a necropolis and its vampire, a football club and a church

A lunch hour cycle ride through south Glasgow exploring an abandoned football ground, a statue, a neglected necropolis and a ruined church. Not forgetting a 1950s moral panic about a vampire.

August 27, 2015 in Glasgow, Scotland.

An Angry Man and Killer Clowns: View from A Disused Scottish Rollercoaster

A strange encounter and killer clowns in an abandoned fairground – the full length version.

June 25, 2015 in Psychogeography, Scotland.

City edgelands: a sanctuary for oddballs and fly-tip art

Exploring a lost wilderness in the city – a sanctuary for strange characters, fly-tip art and foraging.

April 28, 2015 in Glasgow, Psychogeography.

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