5 Sep — 31 Oct 2026 at the Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica, United States Source: Walking Venice | Meer

Almost everywhere I travel as a consultant, someone asks me whether it’s realistic to expect people to walk given the extremes of their climate. They don’t just ask me this in Edmonton and Singapore.  I’ve even been asked this about Los Angeles, where the climate is very mild by global standards.  Well-traveled elites can form

From Pescadero to Vallejo’s Mare Island, these tours are packed with Bay Area history and other delights. Source: Unusual Bay Area Walking Tours for This Summer | KQED

Travis Monson reflects on his ambitious six-year-long photo project and his love for San Francisco. Source: This Photographer Walked Every Street in San Francisco Documenting the City – PRINT Magazine

Two people who have helped in developing the vibrant community of walk · listen · create have unexpectedly died in the last couple of weeks. One of whom, Geoff Nicholson, I’ve known since the 1980s but only at a distance, and the other, Edwin Hind, only since 2016, who was a not-so-far off neighbour of

San Francisco’s streets have been a canvas for artistic expression since the 1800s, playing an important role in the city’s history, culture, and politics. Source: From Walls to Alleys: Walking Through San Francisco’s Iconic Street Art

Like most people on this planet, I have been walking my entire life. Having grown up in Los Angeles, I’ve also logged plenty of time in automobiles, but I’ve been in fortunate to live most of my adult life in a famously “walkable city,” Philadelphia, where my feet have become my preferred routine means of getting around, for both utility and pleasure. 

As part of the release of my book, Walking as Artistic Practice (orders now open for softcover! Discount code: XNIP424), I’m going to be publishing some brief interviews with the various artists, authors, researchers, creatives, collectives, and platforms whose art practice, written material, or other works I cite and mention. My 27th interview in this […]

When architectural historian Reyner Banham wrote Los Angeles: Source: A Walking Tour of Los Angeles Architecture: From Art Deco to California Bungalow | Open Culture

As part of the release of the hardcover release of my book, Walking as Artistic Practice (softcover comes out in April!), I’m going to be publishing some brief interviews with the various artists, authors, researchers, creatives, collectives, and platforms whose art practice, written material, or other works I cite and mention. My seventh interview in […]

Fiona Connor’s “Continuous Sidewalk” tells the story of a city where many people walk every day as part of their lives, livelihoods, and just for a casual stroll. Source: Does Nobody Walk in LA?

A stroll down Rosecrans Avenue is not a pleasure. But it does offer a 27-mile canvas of the city’s vastness and its diverse communities coexisting. Source: Los Angeles Is a Fantastic Walking City. No, Really. – The New York Times

Suspend your belief! Moises Monterrubio, 26, and Daniel Monterrubio, 23, led friends and collaborators who spent six days stringing the line across the complex terrain below, which involved rappelling from cliffs and hanging 1,000 feet in the air. “The dangerous part was actually getting the line across, not walking the line itself,” Source: 2 Brothers

         The slopes are gentler at Swarthmore. Far from my home of Los Angeles and new to the East Coast experience, I remember an especially formative California adventure: backpacking across Catalina Island. I imagine myself rising and falling on Catalina’s rollercoaster mountains again, on a near-pilgrimage. It was fresh, budding spring, universally green, cold in

Source: A San Francisco Soundwalk

“PHOTOGRAPHERS DON’T have eyes in the back of their heads. Janet Sternburg does. This book makes you understand the act of seeing and the reflection that might lead to a photograph in a whole new way. This book about the nature of photography is intense and confusing, but definitely essential.” Source: Walking in L.A.

La Paperson begins “A Ghetto Land Pedagogy: An Antidote for Settler Environmentalism” with a road map. First, Paperson says, “I analyze an Urban Ecology lesson as an illustration of how settler environmentalism employs the logic of terra sacer, or sacred/accursed land, to describe ghettos as wastelands ripe for rescue by ecological settlers” (115). Then, Paperson … Continue reading La Paperson, “A Ghetto Land Pedagogy: An Antidote for Settler Environmentalism” →

Blake Morris’s Walking Networks: The Development of an Artistic Medium, is an important book on walking as an artistic medium. Based on his PhD thesis, it’s also incredibly expensive and not available in my university’s library, so I had to purchase a very expensive and unpaginated e-book; the lack of pagination explains why the citations … Continue reading Blake Morris, Walking Networks: The Development of an Artistic Medium →

Hear from our audio producer about how she transformed Oakland’s diverse history into an immersive audio walk.As a documentarian and Oaklander, Sarah Holtz felt a personal connection to the story she was setting out to tell.In the introduction of her a...

Chuck McCarthy charges $7/mile to go for walks with people in the Los Angeles area Source: The People Walker: We Tried the Professional Walking Service | PEOPLE.com