It matters little not to know how to find one’s way in the city,” says Walter Benjamin, “but getting lost in it, like getting lost in the forest, requires an apprenticeship. The complex analysis of the dynamic components of the city carried out by José Miguel Palacio fragments the real and offers us the resulting concepts as part of a fluid territory; it brings together imaginative, emotional and social layers; it proposes, in short, to inhabit a territory without pretending to replicate it”.