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flaneursHello all, just thought I'd introduce myself.
My main interests these days are in urban/rural-queer environments: anywhere that dichotomy is challenged. I'm worried that tendency may disqualify me from flaneurdom, but hope you will find me a space! Particularly interests include post-demolition rubble fields, railway shunting yards and "triangles" (where a region of land surrounded on all sides gives to elder, rosebay willowherb, etc), the "outdoor factory" environment of industrial agriculture in East Anglia, colonisation of cities by pigeons, legacies of extractive industries (quarry and mine landscapes), etc. Other interests include city/environment interfaces (eg air conditioning, storm drains, power stations, etc); accidental interstices in the build environment; space as a structuring concept; the dynamics and life of unfashionable towns at around the 20-30k mark.
Amongst the cities, towns and fields which interest me: Nottingham, Leicester, Northampton, Birmingham, Loughborough, Leeds, Cambridge, Norwich, Lincoln, Luton, Bedford, St Neots, Huntingdon, Peterborough, fenland, Stowmarket, the slate landscape around Blaenau Ffestiniog, the Trent, the Ilkeston and Erewash areas, the south Wales valleys, linear development generally, particularly in an industrial context, etc.
But I'm not as serious or boring as the above suggests! :)
Good to meet y'all.
My main interests these days are in urban/rural-queer environments: anywhere that dichotomy is challenged. I'm worried that tendency may disqualify me from flaneurdom, but hope you will find me a space! Particularly interests include post-demolition rubble fields, railway shunting yards and "triangles" (where a region of land surrounded on all sides gives to elder, rosebay willowherb, etc), the "outdoor factory" environment of industrial agriculture in East Anglia, colonisation of cities by pigeons, legacies of extractive industries (quarry and mine landscapes), etc. Other interests include city/environment interfaces (eg air conditioning, storm drains, power stations, etc); accidental interstices in the build environment; space as a structuring concept; the dynamics and life of unfashionable towns at around the 20-30k mark.
Amongst the cities, towns and fields which interest me: Nottingham, Leicester, Northampton, Birmingham, Loughborough, Leeds, Cambridge, Norwich, Lincoln, Luton, Bedford, St Neots, Huntingdon, Peterborough, fenland, Stowmarket, the slate landscape around Blaenau Ffestiniog, the Trent, the Ilkeston and Erewash areas, the south Wales valleys, linear development generally, particularly in an industrial context, etc.
But I'm not as serious or boring as the above suggests! :)
Good to meet y'all.
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Date: 2011-05-17 08:27 pm (UTC)It was interesting on that walk to see what is probably a real, if not technical, edge of London. We'd come inwards from Harefield, but Harefield is essentially a village surrounded by green belt, whereas as Ewan pointed out, you could almost certainly walk from Ruislip to central London without ever treading on grass.
I like those "triangles" too. We've come across a few of them on Tube Walks.
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Date: 2011-05-17 09:26 pm (UTC)These things are AWESOME. I look forward to hearing about your explorations in them. As someone who hails from the countryside and lives in the capital, and loves both, this very much appeals to my interests.
But I'm not as serious or boring as the above suggests! :)
Pssht, my heart is A-FLUTTER.
Additionally, I love how many people in this comm are Brits. I'm so used to being the sole Brit in a sea of Americans, it's really refreshing for that to not be the case. Especially as it means I'm more likely to be able to replicate other people's walks!