Spacing
Topic: Walking through the world
I'm on the Pednet listserv though I rarely, and not in a long time, have posted. I seem to get shot down a lot when I post as I'm not quite politically correct enough, in other words, I think all types of transportation have a place in the infrastructure of a town or city, not just transit, walking or cycling. The same thing happens to me on the Carfree lists but then I have a find like today. The post was actually a week ago but I'm just now reading it.

There was a link to Spacing an ezine about walking. I believe you can also subscribe and get a paper copy. It's great! The article are very good and it's so wonderful to see people walking for pleasure not to attain some political goal. So often on Pednet it seems like people walk because it's their duty, but Spacing is very good. So nice to have a resource like this. It doesn't look like they have new issues very often, in fact this is just the 2nd one, but at least I have this one. The purpose of Spacing is actually about keeping public spaces public instead of them being privatized and walled off, which I tend to agree with. After all without public spaces there would be no walking, would there.

There's one article on alleys, which I enjoy walking through. They call them laneways so I didn't realize at first that they were talking about alleys. The one drawback of alleys is the dogs barking at you, but you find bits of nature and parts that aren't prettied up.