Walking the City

A response to the Virtual Field Trips Activity
created July 3, 2023 by Monica Flegel (@mflegel)

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I often teach Michel de Certeau’s chapter on “Walking the City” in my cultural studies courses. Usually, I include static maps of cities and ask students how they would move through them, but using the Google “Arts & Culture” link, I discovered the “White City” link of Tel Aviv and its modernist architecture. I can envision an assignment in the future where I ask students to use google earth to “walk” the city virtually, and how this idea of virtually moving within the landscape challenges ideas of “the flaneur.”

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https://artsandculture.google.com/streetview/white-city-of-tel-aviv/2QEOE5G2V9gQtA?sv_lng=34.77945945539593&sv_lat=32.06700900477571&sv_h=177.457713829609&sv_p=-6.4932988841304535&sv_pid=WLZttRFMDLn3tzUNbaOBNw&sv_z=1.561657068872338