Long before the age of the megalopolis, movement has defined cities. As complex constellations of people, objects and signs, cities are spaces where social, political and historical relations undergo constant negotiation and where the realities and representations of urban life are in persistent and dynamic states of becoming. This is to say that each person's experience of the city organizes an intricately shifting site for the production and exchange of meaning. Simply walking through the streets – choosing a particular path to follow, avoiding certain others – involves many acts of interpretation and mediation, ways of practising urban space that the average urban dweller undertakes everyday, often without a second thought (Certeau [1980] 1990). As the most complex human appropriation of the natural landscape, cities are remarkable for their mobile entanglement of bodies and objects and for the peripatetic production of meanings around such entanglements (Madsen and Plunz 2002). What happens, however, when we begin to reflect on these movements of and through a city? How do we position ourselves – historically, spatially, subjectively – so that we might begin to understand the changing environment that surrounds us, and our place amidst the different cultural and historical uses made of that environment? And how, furthermore, do we begin to articulate and communicate to others such reflections; how, in the end, do we find a position from which to re-present the urban experience?