This article introduces a new perspective on the urban guidebook, playing with the concept of the network to demonstrate the genre’s value for spatial research. Using early twentieth century Bristol as a case study, it examines the collaborative relationship between guidebooks and transport networks to shed light on the dynamic, multivalent characteristics of human movements through the city. Using mapping methodologies, the article reveals guidebook texts’ spatial characteristics which contributed to the material makeup of the city’s mobility geography. It also explores how the genre highlighted subjectivity, and thus played a crucial role in elaborating the meanings and cultures of movement which have concerned mobility geographers. Overall, the article contends to the active role played by the guidebook in Bristol, in doing so elaborating its significance for urban geographers interrogating the richness and diversity of past mobilities.

本文介绍了城市指南的新视角，利用网络的概念来展示该类型的空间研究价值。以 20 世纪早期的布里斯托尔为案例研究，它考察了指南和交通网络之间的协作关系，以阐明城市中人类活动的动态、多价特征。文章使用制图方法揭示了指南文本的空间特征，这些特征对城市交通地理的物质构成做出了贡献。它还探讨了该流派如何突出主观性，从而在阐述与流动性地理学家相关的运动的意义和文化方面发挥了关键作用。总的来说，这篇文章主张布里斯托尔指南所发挥的积极作用，