Walking City

As a kid growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father they called "Last Stop." They would pick a subway line and ride it to its final destination, and explore the neighborhood there. Decades later, Helmreich teaches university courses about New York, and his love for exploring the city is as strong as ever. Putting his feet to the test, he decided that the only way to truly understand New York was to walk virtually every block of all five boroughs - an astonishing 6,000 miles.

It's the last day of 1984, and 85-year-old Lillian Boxfish is about to take a walk. As she traverses a grittier Manhattan, a city anxious after an attack by a still-at-large subway vigilante, she encounters bartenders, bodega clerks, chauffeurs, security guards, bohemians, criminals, children, parents, and parents to be in surprising moments of generosity and grace. While she strolls Lillian recalls a long and eventful life that included a brief reign as the highest paid advertising woman in America - a career cut short by marriage, motherhood, divorce, and a breakdown.

When Ben Coates injures his leg and needs to rebuild his strength by walking, he finds himself presented with an exciting opportunity: to rediscover the city he has been working in for over a decade, at a slower pace. He devises ten walks, each demonstrating a different chapter of Amsterdam's history, from its humble beginnings in the early 1200s as a small fishing community through two Golden Ages, fueled by the growth of the Dutch colonial empire, two world wars, and countless reinventions.

The flâneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the flâneuse who captures the imagination of the cultural critic Lauren Elkin. In her wonderfully gender-bending new book, the flâneuse is a "determined, resourceful individual keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city and the liberating possibilities of a good walk." Virginia Woolf called it "street haunting"; Holly Golightly epitomized it in Breakfast at Tiffany's; and Patti Smith did it in her own inimitable style in 1970s NYC.

The Queen of the Coast. The World’s Playground. The Casino Capital of the East. They can only describe Atlantic City, New Jersey. Beloved, maligned, always-hustling since its 1854 founding, the seaside resort has seen it all: first class hotels, popular amusements on the world famous Boardwalk and its piers, Prohibition, gangsters, speakeasies, conventioneers, celebrities, urban pride, urban decay, a casino revival, a casino collapse—and it hasn’t given up yet. Boardwalk Playground shares a hundred stories of Atlantic City’s high spots and low points of the past century and a half, ...

De Quincey, Baudelaire, Poe, Joyce, Benjamin, Melville, Lorca, Whitman...walkers and city dwellers all, collagists and chroniclers, picking the detritus of their eras off the filthy streets and assembling it into something new, shocking, and beautiful. In To Walk Alone in the Crowd, Antonio Muñoz Molina emulates these classic inspirations, following their peregrinations and telling their stories in a book that is part memoir, part novel, part chronicle of urban wandering.

In 2023, the LORD shared multiple visions with me that burdened my heart for the depraved state of the Church at large today. As I fasted and prayed, I was impressed to walk around my city - just like the Israelites marched around the city of Jericho in the book of Joshua. For seven days in a row, I walked around specific buildings and journaled what I heard the Holy Spirit speak to my spirit. As you listen to these revelations, your heart will be touched and I pray you will be inspired to walk around your own city.

Up from the sofa, lace on the shoes, and out the door. We know that sitting is the new smoking, but how to get from the sofa to actually looking forward to walking a few thousand steps a day. This is the book to motivate you, give you some ideas to keep you going, a few suggestions about types of walks, a hazard warning, and more. Do you find it a joke that simple walking now has its own tech assist list? Motivators like step counters and podcasts can help. We walk through some choices. Oh, and what is Elder, anyhow? Let's reclaim the word. It doesn't mean decrepit any more. Written by an ...

Discover one of Toronto's oldest neighborhoods and the most vibrant market in Canada! Walk through Toronto's main market, sample some of the best foods in the city, and see Toronto's past, all in one neighborhood!

Maggie Jacobsen has a bright future ahead of her, with a handsome boyfriend and a promising career, until an accident on what should be one of the happiest days of her life takes it all away. Lying in hospital and forced to face the possibility that nothing will ever be the same again, Maggie must figure out how to move forward on her own terms while facing family secrets, heartbreak, and the possibility that love might find her in the last place she would ever expect.

Discover one of the most authentic Chinatowns in North America! On this tour you will find the best, authentic Chinese and Vietnamese food in the city, find out where the local residents hang out, and learn about the fascinating history of the area. We will walk with you through the lively markets and also show you some of the best indie bars in Toronto.

Hit the books at the bars, cafes, and restaurants in Toronto's student ghetto! You'll get to see failed student-housing experiments, art bars, a church turned into baroque music venue, an enormous discount store (owned by a theater tycoon!), and finish up in nearby Korea Town.

City Dog Walking Safety & Etiquette covers all the scenarios you and your dog can expect in urban and suburban environments. You will learn simple commands to help you understand each other, find the best equipment, become aware of local hazards, and appreciate basic manners so you and your pup are welcome wherever you go.

Shop till you drop! Visit the city's most glamorous area, find out where the unique shops and galleries are, and let us take you to the best people-watching cafes in the neighborhood.

Spend the day in the most multicultural and eclectic neighborhood in the city! You'll eat food from different cultures, find cheap clothes in some of the city's best vintage shops, play a lamp post that has been turned into a bass guitar, and hang out in Kensington's many cafes.

Embark on an extraordinary journey into the urban jungle with "The City Explorer's Handbook." This gripping and vibrant eBook offers an in-depth exploration of metropolitan delights and urban evolution. From homesteads to towering skyscrapers and the stark contrast between lifestyles, the investigation into city life begins. Learn about the brief yet rich history of cities and marvel at the modern marvels of urbanism. Discover how nature beautifully entwines itself into the urban realm, asserting its indispensable role. Experience the thrill of architecture, varying styles and periods, ...

Jolene Hartman, a young girl walking a duck in L. A., has a secret she's unable to share as she grows up during the turbulent 1930s and 1940s on the fringes of Hollywood. Despite an unusual and troubling relationship with her parents, Jolene finds wonder and delight in constant adventures as she seeks God and love.

For Evelyn, mornings pass as mornings always do. She ticks off the jobs at the laundromat and gives welcoming smiles to those who come in. If they've earned one. Evelyn knows what is going on in her community because she pays attention. She sees the weariness of the frazzled shop owners, the woman with the nasty boyfriend, the nice man with the curly-topped dog, the car parking war and the forgetful man. The community might not notice Evelyn, because it is easy to overlook the seemingly ordinary. But Evelyn is far from ordinary.