Sense and the city: exploring the embodied geographies of urban walking
Sense and the city: exploring the embodied geographies of urban walking
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DOI：
10.1080/14649365.2010.497913
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发表时间：
2010-08
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2.5
通讯作者：
J. Middleton
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作者：
J. Middleton
在英国的行人政策中，步行被提倡为一种有益于身心的可持续交通方式。然而，许多政策讨论都假设所有步行都是相同的，并且在很大程度上是不言而喻的交通方式，而许多关于步行的学术研究都是高度抽象的理论，缺乏对实际行人实践的任何系统的实证探索。因此，对于那些在日常生活中驾驶、谈判和穿越城市街道的人来说，几乎没有什么体验。相比之下，本文旨在定位和理解城市行人不断发展的体验中的日常步行实践。步行被定位和理解为一种社会技术组合，使人们能够特别关注具体的物质和技术关系及其对于参与日常城市步行运动的意义。该分析借鉴了伦敦内城区伊斯灵顿和哈克尼参与者的深入访谈和行走照片日记数据。对城市步行的不同风格和惯例以及它们如何与身体感官和城市物质性密切相关的特别分析关注，为在城市和行人政策以及城市和社会理论之间建立更多的参与提供了机会。
Within UK pedestrian policy, walking is promoted as a sustainable mode of transport that benefits both the body and mind. However, much policy discussion assumes all walking to be the same and a largely self-evident means of transport, whilst many academic engagements with walking are highly abstract theorisations that lack any systematic empirical exploration of actual pedestrian practices. As such, there is little that unpacks the experiences of those who navigate, negotiate, and traverse the city streets in their day-to-day lives. In contrast, this paper aims to situate and understand the practice of everyday walking in the unfolding experiences of urban pedestrians. Walking is positioned and understood as a socio-technical assemblage that enables specific attention to be drawn to the embodied, material and technological relations and their significance for engaging with everyday urban movements on foot. The analysis draws upon in-depth interview and walking photo diary data from participants in the inner London boroughs of Islington and Hackney. Particular analytic attention to the different styles and conventions of urban walking and how these are intimately linked to bodily senses and the materiality of the city provides an opportunity for creating an increased engagement between urban and pedestrian policy and urban and social theory.