Place-Flaneuring

"The power of place - the power of ordinary urban landscapes to nurture citizens' public memory, to encompass shared time in the form of shared territory remains untapped for most working people's neighbourhoods in most cities, and for most ethnic history and women's history. The sense of civic identity that shared history can convey is missing."

Dolores Hayden

The Power of PLace: Urban Landscapes and Public History 

The City Cultures Reader  edited by M Miles, T Miles, I Borden, p109

from I Borden, J Kerr, A Pivaro and J Rendell (ads), Strangely Familiar: Narratives of Architectire in the City (1996).

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