To walk in a city without a set destination is relatively new. It was only in the twenties of the last century that the writer and philosopher Walter Benjamin invented the flaneur, a modern day man who went drifting trough the cities that emerged.
The website The Last Tourist is an example of mapping through writing stories and making drawings. It’s a project by Dutch artist Jan Rothuizen, who traversed the Chinese cities of the Pearl River Delta in 2005.
‘The last Tourist’ is an online passage along hand drawn maps, texts and photographs. This website provides a personal reading of the cities that write themselves.