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experienced place and constantly makes reference to other places elsewhere. It thus accounts for the paradoxical sensibility to, as well as ignoral of, the built environment articulated by our research participants. All this suggests that the turn away from Bergson and the insistence on the collective, cultural nature of memory in urban spaces
may be premature, when perhaps what we are seeing in these case studies is the evidence of `pure memory' emerging: ``the virtual whole of the continuous prolongation of past experience into the present… continually limited by mental functions subordinated to the activity of the body'' (Burton, 2008, p. 329).
In conclusion, Degan and Rose agree that work exploring the multisensory nature of designed urban environments is valuable for understanding some of the key changes occurring to many towns and cities in the early twenty-first century. However, they would also argue that, given the importance of distinct modes of mobility and of perceptual memory to the mediation of that multisensoriality among the research participants in this project, such work needs to pay much more attention to these processes in its account of how urban environments are experienced.
A walk through the City becomes the trigger for a rambling meditation on space, time and human interaction, seen through chance encounters with evocative objects. The narrative of Pedestrian Is composed of several discrete regions, each region providing a distinct visual and textual experience. From a hommage to the noir city films of the 50′s, to a ballet of everyday objects, or to an examination of store windows as shrines, Pedestrian provides an opportunity to explore the hidden meanings of the everyday [Weintraub REF].