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Walking the Manhattan Eruv

Manhattan, New York, NY, USA
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eruv

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Manhattan

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Walking piece
I walked the nearly 50 kilometres in Manhattan, trying to follow the route of the wire that is the Manhattan Eruv, circling the island.

An eruv is a ritual jewish enclosure made for the purpose of allowing activities which are normally prohibited on Shabbat, specifically allowing carrying things between private and semi-private domains, like using a walking stick, or pushing a stroller.

I walked the nearly 50 kilometres in Manhattan, trying to follow the route of this wire, circling the island.

APA style reference

Fakhamzadeh, B. (2022). Walking the Manhattan Eruv. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/walking-the-manhattan-eruv/

pedestrian acts

By de Certeau: In “Walking in the City”, de Certeau conceives pedestrianism as a practice that is performed in the public space, whose architecture and behavioural habits substantially determine the way we walk. For de Certeau, the spatial order “organises an ensemble of possibilities (e.g. by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g. by a wall that prevents one from going further)” and the walker “actualises some of these possibilities” by performing within its rules and limitations. “In that way,” says de Certeau, “he makes them exist as well as emerge.” Thus, pedestrians, as they walk conforming to the possibilities that are brought about by the spatial order of the city, constantly repeat and re-produce that spatial order, in a way ensuring its continuity. But, a pedestrian could also invent other possibilities. According to de Certeau, “the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform or abandon spatial elements.” Hence, the pedestrians could, to a certain extent, elude the discipline of the spatial order of the city. Instead of repeating and re-producing the possibilities that are allowed, they can deviate, digress, drift away, depart, contravene, disrupt, subvert, or resist them. These acts, as he calls them, are pedestrian acts.

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