Description
Situationist maps by Guy Debord (1931-1994) depicting the emotional geography of Paris. His most famous psychogeographic map, "The Naked City" (1957), shows Paris fragmented into 19 distinct neighborhood units cut from a standard city plan, scattered across the page and connected by red arrows indicating psychogeographic flows — the emotional pulls and drifts experienced during a dérive (unplanned walk). The map reassembles the city based on atmosphere and ambiance rather than physical streets, arguing that the lived experience of urban space has its own topology. Debord, a French Marxist theorist, filmmaker, author of "The Society of the Spectacle" (1967), and founding member of the Situationist International, used these maps to critique the rationalist urbanism of Le Corbusier and Haussmann.
