about town: gear cable and fuel crises 2000

article in cartography, the city, published by catalyst arts
distributed throughout belfast

Gear Cable and Fuel Crisis 13 / 9 / 00 The gear cable on the car snapped today at traffic lights at the bottom of the Grovenor Rd. In this city it is still worthwhile to take it to a garage and get it repaired.

There is no panic buying of petrol here, it's the last thing on peoples mind at present.

'About Town' consists of a series of incidental stories from around Belfast gathered over the period of two months. These stories are used to attempt to map the city in a verenacular personalised way.

Belfast is a city frequently represented in the printed media but the representations of the city in newspapers are often restricted to familiar cliches of an unlivable place. This article takes the form of a map, acknoweledging it as an editorial document where select information is included or left out according to the maps function.