...: it incorporates a photographic journey, following the fence that once enclosed the Cold War airbase at Greenham. Based on a series of memory walks, the images describe what happened when peace women and others revisited the commons to (re)trace some of their journeys around the base. The series of photographs...

...Betsy Blackmar © Copyright March 1980, by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1979 Re-walking the ”Walking City”: Housing and Property Relations in New York City, 1780-1840 Betsy Blackmar...

...Hillary Miller Elastic City, an organization that gives sensory, conceptual walks through New York City, explores embodied approaches to accessing urban archives. Todd Shalom, the artistic director of the organization, invites artists to create walks that emphasize engagement with the city space...

...Kevin Murphy Copyright © 1995 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1995 Walking the Queer City Kevin Murphy In June 1994, hundreds of thousands of queer people gathered in New York City to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary...

..., using universally accepted mechanisms for shedding metropolitan areas of the unsightly and unwanted. Ironically, the hypermarginalized hunter-gatherer population can be identified by their perambulation — they walk — a form of urban nomadism that is both desired and reviled. Aboriginal pedestrians who...

...Barbara Schmucki In British cities, as in other European cities, pedestrians' daily practices were refashioned by mass motorization and a new auto culture after the Second World War. Concentrating on people walking in urban areas, this essay examines the transformation of pedestrians in public...

... for decriminalization with efforts to fight structural and direct violence against sex workers in the sex trades. They still struggle to convey the complex entanglement of coercion and consent involved in sex work. In the face of polarizing politics, rights advocates have had to walk a tightrope between defending sex...

... the economy and political system in Brazil collapsed, and they made the decision to walk from Brazil, through South and Central America, to the US border seeking asylum. We received a call that there were Black people at the border, so we went that night and met twelve young men and women, and the rest...

...Rebecca Amato; Jeffrey T. Manuel This collaborative essay invites historians to consider radical walking tours' potential as a dynamic strategy for critiquing liberal understandings of crime in urban settings. The authors examine two very different cities—New York City and East St. Louis, Illinois...

.... Walkowitz Practices of urban engagement in city spaces take many forms, but walking — and how we do it — has always been central to the urban experience. Indeed, urban- ites defined the parameters of the “walking city” historically by the time it took them to traverse space between home and work...

... relations. Richard Nixon, for example, first went to China playing the role of tourist (as much as wartime president). He walked the Great Wall, that paradigmatic Chinese tourist site, and tasted local foods. Then, like so many tourists who flocked to China in the years following, he shared his...

... and Joe Doyle’s descriptions respec- tively of the Brass Workers History Project in Connecticut’s Naugatuck Valley and of Chelsea Walking Tours (in New York City) are two examples of efforts to engage the local community with their own history. Recent critics of this people’s history, with its...