Book Launched - The Walker and the City
31 March 2010
The Walker and the City, edited by Manuel João Ramos and Mário J. Alves, is the third volume of the collection "Pedestrian studies" of
ACA-M.
Contributors: Aymeric BÃ'le-Richard, Daniel Malet, Daniel Sauter, Gerard Horta, Heiner Monheim, Jim Walker, Nicole Muhrad, Ralf Risser, Rob Methorst,
Rodolfo Soares, Victor Meirinhos.
Annexes: Walk21's International Charter for Walking and the Portuguese Charter of Pedestrian Rights (ACA-M/APSI).
The book was published within the frameworks of COST Action 358, Pedestrian Quality Needs, of the European Science Foundation, and of the research
project on Pedestrian Flows in Portugal and Spain (a collaboration between Univ. Barcelona, ISCTE-IUL and ACA-M).
The publication of The Walker and the City was made possible thanks to the support of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and Instituto da Mobilidade e
Transportes Terrestres.
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About the book:
Fortuitous encounters between anonymous people are a recurring cornerstone of urban life. Cities' public spaces have always been fundamental attractors
of people and a guarantee of continuous individual and communal interaction. It is through them that, to a great extent, urban citizens go about the
dynamic construction of that essential process known as "public affairs" and "politics".
In recent times, across Europe, environmental and energy concerns in combination with growing quality demands of urban life have, however,
brought about visible changes in the ideological paradigms that frame not only the more or less official discourses and practices of urban management
but also the expectations and requirements of urban populations.
The international Conference The Walker and the City, which took place at the Goethe Institute in Lisbon on November 12th, 2008, gathered experts from
different European countries seeking to reflect, from a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective at European level on a functional category of
urban mobility: that of the ubiquitous and historically stigmatized figure of the "pedestrian" - or rather, as the new mobility trend prefers to call
it the "walker". At this meeting, the participants discussed the status, needs and prospects of urban walking in Europe, from perspectives as diverse
as transport engineering, psychology and urban and social sciences.
ISBN: 978-989-96665-0-4
228 pages
7,5 euros
