Walking and Writing in Place
I’ve been building this reading list for a number of years, in part through seminars I have taught in the landscape architecture program in The Design School at Arizona State University. Walking and writing actively connect the mind and body to place. They feed one another. As Geoff Nicholson put it in The Lost Art of Walking, “Walkers write; writers walk.” Walking and writing, particularly place writing, have a sense of rhythm, a tempo, a destination. A ramble is a walk whose destination is to become lost. Akin to the essay, from the word essai meaning to try or to test, the ramble is about discovery through the act of meandering into the unknown.
The Art of Wandering: the writer as walker
Old Castle Books
Cities Afoot--Pedestrians, Walkability and Urban Design
Journal of Urban Design
Forsyth and Southworth edited this special issue of JUD
The Walker's Literary Companion
Breakaway Books
Walking Women: Interviews with artists on the move
Performance Research
My Pace Provokes My Thoughts: Poetry and Walking
The American Poetry Review
Walking and Reading in Landscape
Landscape Journal
Green Languages? Women Poets as Naturalists in 1653 and 1807
Huntington Library Quarterly
The Lost Art of Walking
Riverhead Books (Penguin)
Walking the City: Manhattan Projects
Places Journal
The Walk: Notes on a Romantic Image
Dalkey Archive Press
Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Penguin
Walking and Rhythmicity: Sensing Urban Space
Journal of Urban Design