The Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel University, located on the Ben Franklin Parkway, has launched a new walking art exhibition on the importance of watersheds in urban landscapes. Source: Center City urban watershed education walking tour to launch
A new website aims to offer a wide network of walking routes from British train stations, and is calling on hikers to add their favourites. Our writer accompanies the founder on a ramble to Bath Spa station Source: ‘You can walk virtually everywhere in England by using the train’: the man connecting rail-based walks |
Beginning and ending in Dundonald Park, Morgan Mercury’s tours explore prominent activist figures, the development of Ottawa’s queer nightlife and the decades-long purge of federal civil servants suspected of being 2SLGBTQ+. Source: Drag artist queers Centretown’s history in walking tours | CBC News
You don’t really know an urban landscape until you’ve visited all of it on foot – from slums to beauty spots. Just ask the thousands of ‘every-single-streeters’
Source: One down, 39,136 to go: the explorers who walk every street in their city | Walking | The Guardian
galefilero
A jaunt, a rambling walk or ride just for the sake of breaking restraint. from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).
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