Iain Sinclair uses that idea a lot, particularly in Lud Heat and in White Chappel Scarlet Tracings.
Lights out for the territory is both the book which launches him as a hack and that gives birth to a whole micro publishing industry with its own section in waterstones (secret London essentially) but I think it's worth reading, although probably less so for you because you don't know London. His poetry has no merit whatsoever.
Lights out for the territory is both the book which launches him as a hack and that gives birth to a whole micro publishing industry with its own section in waterstones (secret London essentially)