I heard a very interesting podcast yesterday on a phenomenon I'd never heard about before - Psychogeography

To quote from the podcast from ABC's "All in the Mind" program:

"The French situationists coined the term psychogeography in the 1950s and they were out to really establish a new scientific discipline that would challenge the dominant forces that were shaping the city.
Instead psychogeography has come to represent a whole constellation of activities and ideas based on our individual subjective response to the urban environment. And around the world writers, bloggers and urban activists are being inspired to re-imagine their own cities."

Basically that is what I feel I'm doing with this blog. Forcing myself to look at the urban environment of my commute in a very different way.

Another quote from the blog from a cycle commuter:
"You get a sense of the topography of the land and you get a real sense of where hills are, and dips are in the land. And when I envisage my commute to work I can see all those rises and falls in the land. And not only do you get a sense of how the land is shaped, you get a sense of where all the air sits in the land. So you get a feel for where cool spots sit and where hot areas are and where the moisture sort of sits on the ground. And to me, like, having that interaction with the land, to me it makes living in the city actually bearable, in a way."

Hear the podcast or read the transcript here:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2009/2673030.htm#transcript