„Moja ulica” w obcym mieście − doświadczenie londyńskie

Joanna Krajewska

doi:10.23858/JUE23.2025.002

Published: 2025-12-03

Vol. 23 No. - (2025)

“My street” in a foreign city – a London experience

Joanna Krajewska

Journal of Urban Ethnology

Section: Personal cit

https://doi.org/10.23858/JUE23.2025.002

Abstract

In the summer of 2008, I came to London with the intention of finding a job in my profession. The place where I stayed became “my street”, to which I returned with sentiment in the following years, not only in my thoughts. In this article, I attempted to analyse my personal relationship with that place. The work contains an autoethnographic description and a reflection on the source of the emotional attitude to a temporary place of residence abroad from the perspective of a migrant and a tourist. The interpretative background is provided by Adam Majer’s concept of the “personal city” and the theory of place attachment derived from environmental psychology.

Keywords:

my street, private city, place attachment, urban studies, migration, London

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Joanna Krajewska

joanna.krajewska@pwr.edu.pl
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1449-8132

Affiliation:

Politechnika Wrocławska, Wydział Architektury, Poland