The growth and development of Asian urban areas, particularly those in China, which has occurred with extreme rapidity in recent years, has resulted in changes in the landscape for the benefit of megacity construction. The development and use of new technologies have resulted in improved lifestyles for the inter-urban population, new infrastructure lines, and improved efficiency of public services, often at the expense of and in stark contrast to peripheral and rural neighbours. The over-scaling of the territory forces a dimension of travel and displacement in city space, measured in hours, during which we cross neighbourhoods connoted by substantial differences in urban landscape from one another. Nomads, are we travelling from one city to another, or are we always in the same one? In this centripetal hyper-motion, millions of people draw tangible maps from one place to another every day while always remaining in the same city; therefore, the contribution presents a graphic-perceptual reconstruction of some of the streets of the metropolis of Guangzhou, elements symbolising par excellence the journey, so different and immersed in such different urban contexts while still in the same city.
