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Walking the city

6 October 2021

  • Street of house rooftops in Wimbledon with view of the City of London- south west London - UK<br>2BE5A99 Street of house rooftops in Wimbledon with view of the City of London- south west London - UK

    Everywhere there is a whiff of the wild: walking London’s Capital Ring

    London’s trees technically make it a forest, and there’s greenery all around. But the city’s real pleasures are found in the urban-rural tension that you come across on this 78-mile route

9 May 2019

  • Woman holding map in Brooklyn, New York City, USA.

    The art of noticing: five ways to experience a city differently

    When you learn to recognise the beauty in ruins and weeds, you’re really getting somewhere

28 January 2019

  • Millennial travellers in particular are keen to have experiences that involve finding “hidden gems” off the beaten track.

    'No one likes being a tourist': the rise of the anti-tour

    With the tourism explosion affecting even smaller cities such as Porto, visitors and locals alike are looking for more ‘authentic’ days out. But is that possible?

14 November 2018

  • Fixing a crooked signpost on a neighbourhood walk in Spoorwijk, where people spot problems and try to solve them, The Hague, Netherlands

    Can local walking groups help solve urban issues?

    Dutch cities are using wijkwandelingen, or neighbourhoods walks, as a hyperlocal way of improving cities, from fixing signs to adding playgrounds

5 October 2018

  • An elephant path - an unofficial shortcut - in a park in Tunbridge Wells<br>G23WTM An elephant path - an unofficial shortcut - in a park in Tunbridge Wells

    Desire paths: the illicit trails that defy the urban planners

    When cities lack the paths pedestrians need, people vote with their feet

2 October 2018

  • Moor House and St Alphage House, London Wall, City of London

    Walkways in the sky: the return of London's forgotten 'pedways'

    They were planned after the second world war to whisk people above car-choked streets in the financial district, but remained unpopular and half-built. Now, pedestrian walkways are being reimagined for a 21st-century city

21 September 2018

  • People walk down a street in Lisbon

    'Let's bring back the dignity of walking': being on foot in your city

    From trudging through snow to navigating streets with a buggy, Guardian readers share what it’s like to walk in their cities
  • Picnicking on the motorway in November 1973

    Picnics on the motorway: the first car-free Sundays – in pictures

    For three months from November 1973, the Dutch government banned cars on Sundays to curb oil consumption during the Opec energy crisis. City residents enjoyed picnics on empty motorways and got around on foot, by bike ... and on horseback
  • Silhouettes of people walking in the sun

    'I follow a different person every day': using strangers to explore the city

    The rules of the art of ‘following’ are simple: choose a stranger and secretly copy their route – you’ll see the city in a new light

20 September 2018

  • 2017 Mumbai Mithchowki NACTO-GDCI Before After . Mumbai – Mithchowki (Slide 11) BIGRS staff and NACTO-GDCI temporarily transformed Mithchowki intersection in Mumbai, India to make it safer for pedestrians by updating the intersection geometry to slow turning speeds, reduce crossing distances and lane width, and provide additional space for pedestrians.

    Goodbye cars, hello colour: the great reinvention of city intersections

    Across the world, urban intersections are being slowly transformed from grim, car-oriented hazards to bright and pedestrian-friendly spaces, with help from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety
  • A man takes photographs in a shop above Sai Yeung Choi Street South

    Don't walk this way: why Hong Kong reopened a pedestrian street to cars

    When residents complained the noise from a pedestrianised street was causing sleeplessness and psychological distress, city authorities reopened it to cars. Was there a better way?
  • Barking and Dagenham has the highest rate of pedestrian deaths and injuries in London

    New data reveals most dangerous London borough for pedestrians

    Once the number of walking trips is taken into account, Barking and Dagenham is the borough where pedestrians are most in danger of death or injury

19 September 2018

  • The Lijnbaan shortly after it opened in 1953.

    Walk the Lijnbaan: decline and rebirth on Europe’s first pedestrianised street

  • People walk on a crosswalk at a shopping district in Tokyo, Japan August 14, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

    What would a truly walkable city look like?

18 September 2018

  • Calle Mellado before and after the implementation of the scheme.

    'For me, this is paradise': life in the Spanish city that banned cars

  • Artist Jonathan Borofsky’s sculpture Walking to the Sky rises 100 feet above Rockefeller Center in New York City.

    ‘Would that all journeys were on foot’: writers on the joy of walking

17 September 2018

  • The family of Kevin Flores, who was killed by a car while on his bike, join residents, children, activists and politicians at a March for Safe Streets campaign in Brooklyn, New York City.

    Vision Zero: has the drive to eliminate road deaths lost its way?

  • Illustration for essay by David Sedaris

    David Sedaris: ‘It’s fascinating, the things you see when you’re out on foot’

16 September 2018

  • Cyclists and pedestrians in front of the Arc de Triomphe

    Car-free day in Paris and Brussels – in pictures

  • People crossing the street in Sydney, Australia

    What is Walking the City week – and how can you get involved?

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