ABSTRACT
This chapter starts with the premise that the city is famously elusive, and what it have attempts to do is to shed the city of some of its mysteriousness while still acknowledging that it is a mystery forever elusive. Field work in the urban milieu must be accompanied by constant vigilance to the adherence of the demands of the method. However, the more these tools are practiced, the more they become second nature, an added layer of urban consciousness that operates the methodology while all else is operating as well. Urban geographers are in danger of disappearing into the terms of their own discourse. Writing in prose more often impenetrable than pellucid, they seem to drift further and further from the object of investigation, the city. However, it has to be admitted that words can never truly reflect the city. That entity is akin to life itself, an object so large it ranges beyond the limits of description.
