A new housing development outside Phoenix is looking towards European cities for inspiration and shutting out the cars. So far residents love it Source: ‘People are happier in a walkable neighborhood’: the US community that banned cars | Cities | The Guardian
Responses to a column by Lydia Polgreen. Also: A healthier life; using cruise ships to house homeless people; toxic military bases; song of the crickets. Source: Opinion | The Joys of Walking, Together and Solo – The New York Times
After gathering at the Campus Center, Timothy Rohan, associate professor and chair of the history of art and architecture department, and UMass Brut will host a walking tour at 2 p.m. for the UMass Amherst community highlighting campus structures built during the university’s ambitious post-World War II building campaign. Source: Campus Walking Tour to Traverse
It was already dark when I entered the small shop in the informal camp in rural Lebanon, where Khulud was waiting for customers. This was my first return
Source: #PoliticalEngagements: Collaboration and Creativity – Allegra
pedestrian acts
By de Certeau: In “Walking in the City”, de Certeau conceives pedestrianism as a practice that is performed in the public space, whose architecture and behavioural habits substantially determine the way we walk. For de Certeau, the spatial order “organises an ensemble of possibilities (e.g. by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g. by a wall that prevents one from going further)” and the walker “actualises some of these possibilities” by performing within its rules and limitations. “In that way,” says de Certeau, “he makes them exist as well as emerge.” Thus, pedestrians, as they walk conforming to the possibilities that are brought about by the spatial order of the city, constantly repeat and re-produce that spatial order, in a way ensuring its continuity. But, a pedestrian could also invent other possibilities. According to de Certeau, “the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform or abandon spatial elements.” Hence, the pedestrians could, to a certain extent, elude the discipline of the spatial order of the city. Instead of repeating and re-producing the possibilities that are allowed, they can deviate, digress, drift away, depart, contravene, disrupt, subvert, or resist them. These acts, as he calls them, are pedestrian acts.
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