"The act of walking generates a voided space which is no more a village than it is a forest, no more civilized than wild. Fully engaged, your senses will not allow you to get lost the labyrinths in your mind. In rhythm with your steps your thoughts will follow the paths that your body prescribes. If I simply become a body, or if I indulge in thoughts best left undisturbed during my walk, I have done it an injustice. A walk is neither a form of exercise nor a moving meditation. It is both or nothing at all."

"Do Americans want sidewalks in front of their houses and actual places to walk to—'Leave the car in the garage!' is a common refrain on real estate sites—or are Americans happy, as transportation analyst Alan Pisarski puts it, to 'drive to where they can walk?' Surveys on this question are decidedly mixed. A National Association of Realtors survey found that a majority of people would rather live in a 'smart growth' community than a 'sprawl community'; the same survey found that a majority, however, were willing to accept a longer drive to shops and restaurants if it meant having a single-family home. What these surveys tend to reveal is that most Americans would like to live in places that don’t really exist. As Barbara McCann, director of the National Complete Streets Coalition, says, 'people want a big house on a big lot, where there are stores they can walk to.'"

"The Legion model seeks to understand, with each step the pedestrian takes, what their next step will be, based on a mathematically weighted combination of three factors (the tolerance for, and wish to avoid, inconvenience, frustration, and discomfort). More minor things are often observed—people pausing briefly in London before exiting a transit station to see if it’s raining—but not fully modeled yet. (Plottner notes the company already has some 9 million pedestrian measurements.) Getting large crowds of people to move smoothly often involves negating people’s own natural inclinations. In London, or in Chinese cities, he notes, it is common to see a long railing at the bottom of pairs of escalators. 'It forces you to take a few extra steps,' he says. 'Every time we turn, we’re always trying to cut the corner, always trying to get a leg up on that other person. This removes the conflict area from the base of the escalator.' Similarly, Legion’s models for sports stadiums and other large facilities often show circular switchbacks in staircases can handle more people than square. 'People are better about following the outline of the wall,' says Plottner. 'They don’t feel like it’s causing them extra work.'"

"In other words, not to be on a horse, flying or otherwise, was to be utterly unremarkable and mundane. To this day, Ronkin was intimating, the word 'pedestrian' bears not only that slightly alien whiff, but the scars of condescension. This became clear as we walked later that evening through the historic center of Savannah. As we moved through the squares, our rambling trajectory matched by our expansive conversation, we were simply people doing that most human of things, walking. But every once in a while, we would encounter a busy thoroughfare, and we became pedestrians. We lurked under ridiculously large retroreflective signs, built not at our scale, but to be seen by those moving at a distance and at speed. Other signs reinforced the message, starkly announcing: 'Stop for Pedestrians.' I thought, 'Wait, who’s a pedestrian? Is that me?'"

"An ancient creature thought to be the first to step on land could not
have walked on four legs, 3D computer modelling shows."

Der Spazierstock ist sein Markenzeichen. Gerhard Lang nennt sich "Spaziergangswissenschaftler" - eine Hommage an einen grotesken Denk- und Kunststil, der in den 80er Jahren in der Dokumenta-Stadt Kassel von sich Reden machte. Seine künstlerischen Spaziergänge können Lang genauso in die Wolken führen wie die Keller von Scotland Yard.

Kirkman Talks With Comic Book Resources While Daryl's Crossbow Shows Up in LA Times, from The Walking Dead http://blogs.amctv.com/the-walking-dead/

In New York City, the Discussion on Historic Preservation Begins at Penn Station, from Walking Off the Big Apple http://www.walkingoffthebigapple.com/