The idea is to deepen our knowledge of landscape as a sphere of movement. The need to conduct research on urban walking emerges from the mechanics of so-called “sensory motor amnesia”, an unaware process of memory loss of how certain groups of muscles feel and how to control them. Source: The forgotten art of walking.
Here are eight terms, some brand-new, others recently resurfaced, that match today’s travel trends. Source: Land Snorkeling? Townsizing? A User’s Guide to the Latest Travel Lingo. – The New York Times
Officially, the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989. Demolition would take more than four years, and a few sections remain for memorial purposes, but it was on that date that passage between East and West Berlin — and thus East and West Germany — opened to all citizens of both countries. Source: Take a
A research feedback exhibition, an illustration exhibition, and the installation of two public art works in the railway station area: this is how the project WALC (Walking Landscapes of Urban
Source: WALC! – Practices and cultures of urban walking | Università di Padova
fat man’s folly
A narrow gap in a drystone wall or rock face ie one a fat man would be foolish to try to get through. A number exist in the Lake District bearing that specific name but it is also a general term in Cumbria for any narrow gap.
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