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Walking
Walking is a means of travel by foot. People walk as a means of transportation, as a leisure activity, as a way of communing with nature, or as a pilgrimage. Walkability of city areas is a focus of urban planning.
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Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities. Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the walker invents other ways to go.
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― Wanderlust: A History of Walking
― Wanderlust: A History of Walking
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The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than chance, to strip the world of its wide-open possibilities and replace them with freedom of choice in the marketplace.
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― Wanderlust: A History of Walking
― Wanderlust: A History of Walking
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