The Waltz of the Bagel: Choreographing the Pedetic High Street in Edinburgh Part 1 Dissertation 2020 Daniel Anderson Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | UK Concern for the British high street is at an all-time high. This investigation seeks to reframe the debate by presenting a specific means of interpreting the high street and variant methodologies for assessing its contribution to our towns and cities.Drawn from Foucault and Agamben’s paradigmatic philosophies, several urban paradigms are interrogated to reveal their interpretation of the high street. From these interpretations and in dialogue with an urban analysis of Edinburgh, the place of the everyday in the high street is specified in a paradigm which views the structure of the high street as a pedetic network. In this network urban dancers trace figures which collide and flow, revealing opportunities for the individual to stake a place in the street’s spatial and temporal fabric.The choreography of the pedetic high street draws on the associative power of ordinary objects to uncover the individual’s emotional connections and fragmented memories. These fragments, and the complex spatial network of connections, disjunctions and irruptions which the pedetic high street elucidates, are presented in the form of a chorographic atlas.The Waltz of the Bagel revisits stagnating preconceptions of the high street’s identity and tentatively indicates avenues towards a more optimistic future. Daniel Anderson Tutor(s) Dr. Dorian Wiszniewski