Species of space 6/10/16

Above show a map highlighting the ghost trail in Huddersfield, each important landmark is shown with a green dot and a number. This routed creates a shape that you can use to represent the journey in a visual way without using words, when you explore this in different contexts it begins to build a huge visual picture that shows the history of a place or the species of space.

(G.Perec 1997 'species of space and other pieces')

I really like this play on words that Perec used in his book the way it explores both ends of the spectrum is a really intelligent way of portraying your ideas. I would really like to use something like this in my work as I am going to explore the contrast between poverty and luxury in Leeds as part of my sense of place brief.

As I am researching into a city I would also like to do a small investigation into how road signs affect the flow of traffic in a city and compare it fastest routes or routes that use less dual carriage ways for example. It would also be interesting to see how weather effects the movement of people in a city. I will display what I find on maps for my primary research. Another thing that I am going to consider looking at is heights of buildings in cities being dependent on the audience or 'place' in society and see this differs between pubs or cocktail bars for example.

When showing maps consider scale and draw maps from different scales to show detail up close but also how a certain pinpoint fits into it's surrounding area.