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  • An endless living world

    If there is a heaven, and I am allowed entrance, I will ask for no more than an endless living world to walk through and explore.

    Michael R. Canfield, Field Notes on Science and Nature
    • learning
    • nature
    • religion
    • walking
  • Shortlist of interesting spaces

    Nick Trombley, barnsworthburning.net
    • craft
    • work
    • walking
    • www
    • notetaking
    • words
    • euphony
    • melancholy
    • zen
    • darkness
    • gardens
  • The Right to Roam

    This walk across private land was not unusual. Thousands of distance walkers in Britain, regularly do the same thing , which is different from what people typically do in the United States. If you wanted to walk across America, you’d have to do it on a combination of public trails and roads and you certainly couldn’t cut across Madonna’s property.

    In the United Kingdom, the freedom to walk through private land is known as “the right to roam.” The movement to win this right was started in the 1930s by a rebellious group of young people who called themselves “ramblers” and spent their days working in the factories of Manchester, England.

    Katie Mingle, 99% Invisible
    99percentinvisible.org
    • walking
    • ownership
    • land
  • Take a Walk

    Now that many of us are working from home, we’re walking in order to fill up space … to clear our minds … to cry … to talk on the phone … to entertain our kids … to do nothing … but walk.

    Roman Mars & Kurt Kohlstedt, 99% Invisible
    99percentinvisible.org
    1. ​​Walk and ride through London with Foster + Partners​​
    • walking
  • Walking is a natural armature for thinking sequentially

    Walking is a natural armature for thinking sequentially. It also has a historic relationship to mental organization that ranges from the Peripatetics, to the philosophers of Kyoto, to the clockwork circuit of Immanuel Kant, to the sublimities of the English Romantics and their passages through nature. It is not simply an occasion for observation but an analytic instrument.

    Michael Sorkin, 20 Minutes in Manhattan
    1. ​​Reveries of a Solitary Walker​​
    • walking
    • thinking
  • Cities designed to facilitate walking

    It seems clear that for reasons of both sustainability and sociability, human power as a means of locomotion in the city should be optimized. Cities designed to facilitate walking will—because of their accessible dimensions—likely be more neighborhood-focused and compact as well as more mixed in use. To be reached by walking, a destination—whether a school, office, or shop—must be close at hand. A reasonable walking time (in this culture) for basic necessities is generally considered to be about ten minutes, which translates (at an average walking speed of three to four miles per hour) into six to eight short blocks (or three to four long ones). Using this dimension as a radius, we might begin to think of a comfortable scale for a neighborhood as ten to fifteen New York City blocks.

    Michael Sorkin, 20 Minutes in Manhattan
    • walking
    • sustainability
    • socializing
  • Let the body wander

    If the mind needs to wander, best let the body do the same. A short walk is more effective in coming up with an idea than pouring all the coffee in the world down your gullet.

    Frank Chimero, The Shape of Design
    • thinking
    • walking
    • creativity
  • A dot went for a walk

    A dot went for a walk and turned into a line.
    The dot, the line, the dance, the story, and the painting had found connections. Memory became learning, learning became understanding.

    Learning is remembering what one is interested in. Learning, interest, and memory are the tango of understanding.

    Creating a map of meaning between data and understanding is the transformation of big data into big understanding.

    The dot had embraced understanding.
    Understanding precedes action.
    Each of us is a dot on a journey.

    Richard Saul Wurman, Understanding Understanding
    • information
    • walking
  • Who walks beside you?

    Who is the third who walks always beside you?
    When I count, there are only you and I together
    But when I look ahead up the white road
    There is always another

    T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
    • religion
    • walking
  • 20 Minutes in Manhattan

    A Book by Michael Sorkin
    www.goodreads.com
    1. ​​It begins with a trip down the stairs​​
    2. ​​Thoughts on stairs​​
    3. ​​They are something that has been buried​​
    4. ​​(an architectural stem cell that might transform itself into any organ for living)​​
    5. ​​The grid and its difficulties​​
    1. ​​The Mezzanine​​
    2. ​​Psychogeography​​
    3. ​​Tilted Arc​​
    • architecture
    • urbanism
    • cities
    • home
    • walking

    Easily one of the most important books I've come across on issues of our urban environment. Could have been titled A Brief History of the City for its density of ideas.

  • To Make a Book, Walk on a Book

    An Essay by Craig Mod
    craigmod.com
    Image from craigmod.com on 2020-08-11 at 10.08.03 AM.jpeg

    The ability of the physical world — a floor, a wall — to act as a screen of near infinite resolution becomes more powerful the more time we spend heads-down in our handheld computers, screens the size of palms. In fact, it’s almost impossible to see the visual patterns — the inherent adjacencies — of a physical book unless you deconstruct it and splay it out on the floor.

    1. ​​Koya Bound​​
    2. ​​How I Wrote Shape Up​​
    • design
    • typography
    • understanding
    • publishing
    • walking
  • Reveries of a Solitary Walker

    A Book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    1. ​​Walking is a natural armature for thinking sequentially​​
    • walking
  • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

    A Book by Haruki Murakami
    • walking
  • Why I Walk

    An Article by Chris Arnade
    walkingtheworld.substack.com

    On my first day I literally walk across the city, to the extent it can be done…The next day I do another cross town walk, but in a different direction, filling in the blanks from the prior day’s walk.

    Then, over the next week(s), I walk between 10 to 20 miles per day, picking and choosing from what I have seen before, highlighting what I like, what I want to know more about, refining the path, till by the end of my trip, I have a daily route that is roughly the same.

    While that is certainly not the most efficient way to see a city, it is the most pleasant, insightful, and human. I don’t think you can know a place unless you walk it, because it isn’t about distance, but about content.

    • walking
    • humanity
    • cities
  • Walk Appeal

    An Article by Steve Mouzon
    originalgreen.org
    Image from originalgreen.org on 2021-08-24 at 7.39.48 PM.jpeg

    Walk Appeal promises to be a major new tool for understanding and building walkable places, and it explains several things that were heretofore either contradictory or mysterious. It begins with the assertion that the quarter-mile radius (or 5-minute walk,) which has been held up for a century as the distance Americans will walk before driving, is actually a myth.

    Both images below are at the same scale, and the yellow dashed line is a quarter-mile radius. On the left is a power center. As we all know, if you're at Best Buy and need to pick something up at Old Navy, there's no way you're walking from one store to another. Instead, you get in your car and drive as close as possible to the Old Navy front door. You'll even wait for a parking space to open up instead of driving to an open space just a few spaces away… not because you're lazy, but because it's such a terrible walking experience.

    The image on the right is Rome. The circles are centered on the Piazza del Popolo (North is to the left) and the Green radius goes through the Vittorio Emanuele on the right. People regularly walk that far and then keep on walking without ever thinking of driving.

    • urbanism
    • walking
  • On the Link Between Great Thinking and Obsessive Walking

    An Article by Jeremy DeSilva
    lithub.com

    You are undoubtedly familiar with this situation: You’re struggling with a problem—a tough work or school assignment, a complicated relationship, the prospects of a career change—and you cannot figure out what to do. So you decide to take a walk, and somewhere along that trek, the answer comes to you.

    • walking
    • thinking
    • genius
  • Ri — The Distance Walked in an Hour

    An Article by Craig Mod
    craigmod.com
    Image from craigmod.com on 2021-02-25 at 10.05.32 AM.jpeg

    A ri is a unit of measure, it’s about how far a person can walk in an hour at a reasonable pace. It clocks out at roughly 3.93 kilometers.

    Remnants of the ri system are scattered along the old roads of Japan. During the Edo period, ri were marked recurrently by hulking earthen mounds that flanked the road — ichi-ri zuka, “one-ri mounds.” There are only a handful of “originals” left. When you pass one with an old cypress or oak growing from its center it becomes a tiny moment of celebration.

    • walking
    • scale
  • A Need to Walk

    An Essay by Craig Mod
    craigmod.com

    Walking intrigues the deskbound. We romanticize it, but do we do it justice? Do we walk properly? Can one walk improperly and, if so, what happens when the walk is corrected?

    • walking
    • thinking
    • urbanism
    • discovery
  • Walk and ride through London with Foster + Partners

    An Article by Norman Foster
    www.fosterandpartners.com

    With outdoor activities being the flavour of the season, we have drawn up a few routes through the city that you could take on with friends and family. Suitable to bike or walk, each route features a selection of projects by the practice in the capital, introducing some of our ongoing work and reacquainting you with some old favourites.

    1. ​​Take a Walk​​
    • walking

    I'm recording this article because it's a great example of the kind of social distancing activity I want to do more of myself. Urban exploration curation.

  • Psychogeography

    A Definition by Guy Debord
    en.wikipedia.org

    Psychogeography is an exploration of urban environments that emphasizes playfulness and "drifting". It was defined in 1955 by Guy Debord as:

    • "The study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals."
    • "A total dissolution of boundaries between art and life."
    • "A whole toy box full of playful, inventive strategies for exploring cities...just about anything that takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of the urban landscape."
    1. ​​Who the fuck is Guy Debord?​​
    2. ​​20 Minutes in Manhattan​​
    3. ​​The drift​​
    4. ​​Raindrops leaving an erratic trail​​
    • walking
    • cities
    • urbanism
    • play
    • exploration
  • New Public Sites

    A Place by Graham Coreil-Allen
    newpublicsites.org

    New Public Sites walking tours explore the history, design and uses of public spaces. Through walking tours, maps and videos, Public Artist Graham Coreil-Allen pushes pedestrian agency, interprets aspects of the everyday and investigates the negotiable nature of the built environment. New Public Sites invites you to practice “radical pedestrianism” – traveling by foot through infinite sites of freedom while testing the limits of and redefining public space.

    1. ​​Names vs. The Nothing​​
    • urbanism
    • walking
  • Walking through doorways causes forgetting

    A Research Paper
    news.nd.edu

    Entering or exiting through a doorway serves as an ‘event boundary’ in the mind, which separates episodes of activity and files them away. Recalling the decision or activity that was made in a different room is difficult because it has been compartmentalized.

    1. ​​112. Entrance Transition​​
    • memory
    • architecture
    • walking
    • exits
    • doors
  • Koya Bound

    A Book by Craig Mod
    walkkumano.com
    Screenshot of walkkumano.com on 2020-08-11 at 10.02.26 AM.png
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    Koya-san — home to esoteric Buddhism — is the name of a sacred basin eight hundred meters high and surrounded by eight mountains. It is roughly one hundred kilometers of trails north from the Kumano Hongu Taisha shrine in Wakayama, Japan. Though the name of the basin is often incorrectly translated as Mt. Koya in English, Mt. Koya is only one of the eight peaks, and is remote from the central cluster of temples.

    We walked towards Koya-san, but we did not touch Mt. Koya.

    1. ​​To Make a Book, Walk on a Book​​
    • writing
    • photography
    • walking

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  18. Chris Arnade