Inspired by the dérive experiments of the Situationists, who opposed the conscious subjective appropriation of urban space to the devastation wrought by capitalism and car-centric urban planning, I wander through Germany's largest city, which is actually not a single city but a patchwork of many. This may seem absurd, especially since the Ruhr area consists to a significant extent of automotive zones that are typically driven through rather than walked. Nevertheless, walking seems to me the only way to truly read a city. Transforming my reading of the urban landscape into text, I explore neighborhoods and peripheries, such as Dortmund-Mengede or Hagen-Haspe, Duisburg-Rheinhausen, Bottrop-Kirchhellen, etc., without a destination and without a precise plan, intuitively following the temptations of the terrain (Guy Debord), tracing atmospheres, and psychogeographically mapping the urban landscape.