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The paper discusses analyses of urban experience through the lens of photography. It posits that urban photography exhibits the mythological and poetic structure of the urban experience. The term “urban poetics” is used to elucidate this structure. The point of this paper’s discussion is not to focus on the objective structure of the city, but rather, the personal and collective urban experience. For this purpose, as a means of directing our attention to urban representations, beginning with photography, the paper refers to what I have termed the “analysis of urban representations.” Thus, we will be guided by the goal of illuminating the poetic structure of urban experience through this analysis of urban representations. This analysis is not only a clue to the ways in which photographic works examine the mythological and poetic structure of urban experience. Through this discussion of architects and poets’ relationship to the photographic medium, I have also sought to demonstrate the possibility of elucidating the “urban poetics” present in architecture and poetry. In my book, Urban Poetics, I also discuss architectural theory, painting, and film; however, I think photographic urban representation is a particularly powerful material in the analysis of mythological and poetic structure in urban experience. Ultimately, this is the reason I have chosen to focus on photographic representations of urban space in this paper.