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

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. 

         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

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

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

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

“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.