ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the walking journey of the author along Tottenham Court Road in central London. Great trees, signage and street lamps line parts the road, interrupting the long view, breaking up the tall facades. Beyond them, the asphalt road is heavily trafficked, with buses, taxis and cyclists for the most part. Tottenham Court Road is not an abstract linear space in which things are arranged, but the boundary condition that makes the location of things and the passage of people and transport possible. The geometry of the Tottenham Court Road appears to be like a transparent, adaptable scaffolding that structures relationships between things, and that facilitates change over time. The author feels that personal memory-exchange with the life and fabric of the street is made possible only by being there and through the material conditions of the street.
