Reading the City as a Sign

Yes, it's exam time. Isn't this interesting, though?! It's from an article about academically reading the city. She doesn't quite talk about understanding a city or a location through the body, rather than simply 'knowing' it academically/spiritually, but she gets dang close.

Moving about the city is not a passive activity. On the contrary, it stimulates our capcity to perceive, which enables Karl Gottlob Schelle to consider this activity 'non comme un simple mouvement du corps mai bein comme une action dans laquelle quelque chose de l'esprit est engagee' (not as a simple motion of the body but rather as an action in which something spiritual is engaged). It creates awareness of way that motion continually builds and rebuilds the world around us. The action of walking changes or usual or habitual view of the world, opens it up and helps us to reconsider the everyday.

-- Genevieve Quebriac, 'The City: A Space for Event-Related Encounters'

Note to La: Sorry I didn't put in the accents; I don't have the motivation.