Walking

How can a city be designed for walking if walking itself designs the city? Combining perspectives from sociology and anthropology, as well as contributions from art, architecture, design, and journalism, Martin Tironi and Gerardo Mora show how walking subtly destabilizes and resists the organized navigability of the city. By touching surfaces, sniffing cracks, breathing air, and perceiving the light and shadows of a perpetually changing urban environment, walking undoes connection, escapes confinement, and inverts containment. In doing so, it reawakens the city.