The Walker
Matthew Beaumont
There is no such thing as a false step. Every time we walk we are going somewhere. Especially if we are going nowhere. Moving around the modern city is not a way of getting from A to B, but of understanding who and where we are. In The Walker, Matthew Beaumont retraces episodes in the history of the walker since the mid-nineteenth century.
Highlights
No walk, as far as I am concerned, is ever wasted. In contrast, for example, to a car journey. In a city — especially one dominated by cars, by individualistic rather than collective, private rather than public modes of transport — it is walking that habitually makes me feel alive. It makes me feel both vitally connected to the city's ceaseless circuits of energy and, at the same time, delicately detached from them. Stimulant, then, and narcotic.
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