In the 1980s, Peter Marshall was in Old Ford, taking a walk in what is now the London borough of Tower Hamlets. Source: A Walk Around Old Ford, East London, In The Late 20th Century – Flashbak

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.

Dear friends and loiterers As promised, here’s the information about May’s First Sunday. It is being facilitated by walking artist extraordinaire Blake Morris at The Walk Exchange. Find out more about Blake here: https://thisisnotaslog.com/British-Sum...

Dear friends and fellow loiterers I hope you have found something delightful this leap year day. I’ve been enjoying the first Spring flowers which bring joy and comfort; all things shall pass It’s First Sunday, This Sunday and of course that means it...

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

Ways of Walking brings together 26 writers who reflect on walks they have taken and what they have discovered along the way. Edited by Ann de Forest.

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

I am thrilled to be part of the book launch Design Research for Urban Landscapes featuring a keynote of Prof. Dr. Ottmar Ette presenting his thoughts on “science on the move”, based on his extensiv research on Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859). The book can seen as a translation of Humboldt´s´s findings into contemporary design research. Design […]

On 12 May 2018 fifty-five people in fifteen countries on five continents explored the centres of their landscape.1 They walked alone and in groups; on short strolls and epic walks; in rural, urban and suburban landscapes; in familiar and unfamiliar places. Some walked during the day and others at night. Some never made it out of the […]

On May 16, 30 people from the North of Munich met 30 international landscape experts from “LeNotre Landscape Forum” and walked Munich´s open spaces together. I came up with a route and introduced a set of rules (to walk in silence, to keep ten steps distance…) to inspire an intense engagement with the urban landscape. […]