‘Do you ever run out of ideas’? a relative asked me recently.  I answered honestly: ‘No’. I rarely suffer from writer’s block, my problem is more usually whether a piece of writing is any good, or not. Often, I can’t be sure.  However, ...

More than 25 local artists have hidden Bigfoot-inspired creations across 21 Portland locations. Source: Portland just launched the most delightfully weird scavenger hunt you’ll see this year — and it involves a 200-pound ballerina Sasquatch – Here is Oregon – hereisoregon.com

In 2021, walk · listen · create published A DIY toolkit for digital sound walks. Five years is a long time in locative media. Some of the tools in that survey have closed, some have been absorbed by larger companies, and others still have a website but are no longer realistic options for a new creator.

In this issue, we talk about Living Streets Aotearoa’s new Executive Council, the upcoming footpath rule change, party responses to LSA policy questions, and more. We want more people walking and enjoying public spaces be they young or old, fast ...

LOCUS invites contributions on walking as an embodied, mnemonic and narrative practice that activates histories in bodies, places and representations, connecting memory studies, phenomenology, heritage, psychogeography and the walking arts.

Living Streets Aotearoa believes it is important that New Zealand has national policy that supports walking and pedestrians. Back in April, we sent a series of policy questions to political parties and asked for their responses in advance of the 2026 e...

Living Streets Aotearoa President’s Report 2025–26 Kia ora koutou, This is my final President’s Report for Living Streets Aotearoa, as I am stepping down as President, and from the Executive Council, after four years in the role and six years on ...

I’m writing this after rereading Kenneth Alsopp’s classic Hard Travellin’ after a gap of some nearly fifty years. It is, needless, to say, a book of its time but what a poetic piece of extensive research it is. It’s a piece of Americana but the book al...

The new trails will allow visitors to explore the habitats of six of the forest’s species. Source: New Ashdown Forest walking routes mark Winnie the Pooh’s 100th birthday – BBC News

Living Streets Aotearoa, the national walking advocacy organisation, is concerned about the recent announcement from the Government that new lane use rules that will allow some children and adults to ride bikes on the footpath will come into effec...

Facing the contemporary environmental crisis, this project was born from the need to rethink nature and re-conceptualise technology as an open-source tool for communities.

Repérage audio en duo d’écoute.Un quartier lyonnais, périphérique, polymorphe, multiculturel, en grande restructuration.Plaisir de retrouver le terrain pour de nouveaux points d’ouïe et projets a venir.Déambuler par ici, lotissement très calme.Déambuler par là, boulevard très agitéSur un spot surprenant, on regarde le paysage au travers une carillon de trois cloches, suspendues sur le parvis d’une […]

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The next Transport Research Webinar will take place on Thursday 24 September 12-1 pm. These webinars are co-hosted by Living Streets Aotearoa, Transport Research Network (TRN), and Cycle Action Network (CAN). For this webinar, Dr Caroline Shaw will be ...

Most walkable cities in the world for 2026, ranked from 1 to 30 using more than 467,000 verified GuruWalk walking-tour reviews Source: Most walkable cities in the world: the top 30 for 2026

He taught maths and walked across Europe, trying to leave his demons behind. As he goes back on tour aged 83, the folk-pop legend explains how he came back to singing Source: ‘Why not try to be the best in the world, just for the fun of it?’ Art Garfunkel on a rich, restless life

A BS3 Museum Walk (Others Are Available) Join me on one of my regular walks from my home to Ashton Gate, the home of Bristol City. I am highlighting the exhibits I connect with. If you were to undertake the walk you would, undoubtedly, see different th...

An invitation to participate Autumn approaches and the Equinox is only a few days away, falling on Wednesday 23rd September. In common with previous proocations, it uses time and walking as a common thread. The Autumn Equinox marks the first day of Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere and Spring in the Southern. It’s also known

An attempt at characterising 76 works in the WLC archive suggests that walking art makes urban conditions perceptible in ways that conventional walkability measures rarely do. Through altered routes, sensory attention, collective movement and counter-mapping, these pieces expose the histories, power relations, ecological conditions and embodied constraints that shape how space can be inhabited.

From walking arts and guided tours to sacred pilgrimage, how and in what ways do walking practices speak to heritage? This is an invitation to contribute to an edited collection of critical writings and reflective documentation from practices at the intersection of embodiment, site and heritage. The collection attends to walking as a situated practice,