Paths Made By Walking
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Media Flâneurie
by Sofia LyallWhen the pandemic began, I tried to see the lockdown as an opportunity to really get to know my…
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Beyond Walking Alone
When I first heard this issue’s title, ‘Paths made by Walking’, two pieces of western contemporary art from the…
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Fifty Meters Above
by Tania ArenasBeing fifty metres above Central London proved to be a cathartic retreat from the sound of enervated car engines…
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Bata-Ville: 87 Years Later
by Miquel AgellSurrounded by the Thames and a southern Essex landscape, the remains of what once was a perfect Utopia still reside…
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Lunar Footprints
A rumbling explosion of engines roar to life, billowing smoke rolls across the desert. The fragmented spike of Icarus…
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The Drunk Walk Home
“What is wrong in my life, that I must get drunk every night?” Fine Young Cannibals – Johnny Come…
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The Amber in the Grey
I will begin with a few ideas about the city from theory and social science literature. It is not…
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Lesser Northern Cave System
by Fab BasfordThe Lesser Northern Cave System, often overlooked for its sister cave (Greater Northern Cave System) presents the academic community…
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From Grass To Concrete
It’s an hour and fifteen to New Cross. I go from winding single-lane roads cutting through fields to the…
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Mutate to Survive
When I sat down with my flatmates to watch the BBC documentary ‘I Am Mutoid’, there was instantly an…
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Interview: Noga Levy-Rapoport
On the 6th of November, named the ‘Global Day of Action for the Climate”, up to 100,000 people marched…
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Wouldn’t Take Nothing For My Journey Now
“But the most pleasant of all outward pastimes is … to make a petty progress, a merry journey now…
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Am I at the Mercy of the Pathmaker
Feet tread carefully on a path that has been Planned and paved for three hundred years. Etched into the…
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A Stumble Through the History of New Cross and its Favourite Boozers
by Alex BrooksNobody needs to read an article about the cultural significance of public houses in British culture as every high…
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Around Twenty Miles Over Two Days
A photo series documenting a way across Icknield way, one of the oldest paths in Britain
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