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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: walking -- more than pedestrian ; PART I Culture, Society and Historical Context; 2 Walking in the capitalist city: on the socio-economic origins of walkable urbanism ; 3 Radical twenty-first-century walkers and the Romantic qualities of leisure walking ; 4 Long-distance walking in films: promises of healing and redemption on the trail ; 5 Walking as pedagogy ; 6 Walking in Germany: between recreation and ideology |
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7 Walking and art: perambulating pleasures PART II Social Practices, Perceptions and Behaviours; 8 Dog walking as a leisure activity ; 9 Walking ill Switzerland: urban and not so leisurely ; 10 Purposeful leisure mobilities; refraining the walk to school ; 11 Spiking: the quest for challenge and meaning among hikers ; 12 On the beaten track: how do narratives from organised hiking differ from ""real"" hiking narratives? ; 13 Comparisons between hikers and non-hikers in Iceland: attitudes, behaviours and perceptions ; 14 Passeggiata nuova: social travel in the era of the smartphone |
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15 Walking online: a netnography of China's emerging hiking communities PART III Hiking Trails and Pilgrimage Routes; 16 Hut-to-hut-hiking trails: a comparative analysis of popular hiking destinations ; 17 Taking you home: the Masar Ibrahim Al-Khalil in Palestine ; 18 The Wales Coast Path: the world's first national coastal footpath ; 19 Improving the experience quality of hiking trails: a setting-experience-relationship approach ; 20 Hikers' preferences and DMO strategies: contrasting perspectives and conflicting views? |
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21 Re-signifying smuggling: cross-border walking trails as a tourist experience in the Spanish-Portuguese border 22 The solo-hike: a journey of distance and closeness ; 23 Walking to care: pilgrimage as a slow tourism development -- Kumano-kodo pilgrimage. Wakayama, Japan ; 24 Hindu pilgrimage in India and walkability: theory and praxis ; PART IV Health, Well-being and Psychology; 25 Rambling on: exploring the complexity of walking as a meaningful activity ; 26 Life-changing walks of mid-life adults ; 27 Walking to promote increased physical activity |
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28 Taking the first step: from physical inactivity towards a healthier lifestyle through leisure walking 29 Dog walking in urban greenspaces ; PART V Method, Planning and Design; 30 Walkable places for visitors: assessing and designing for walkability ; 31 Walking on the shoulders of giants: historical mountain trails as management tools? ; 32 Wayfinding design for rural flânerie in France ; 33 Community benefits from walking tourism in Western Norway ; 34 When walking is no longer possible: investigating crowding and coping practices in urban tourism using commented walks |
| Summary |
"Walking is an essentially human activity. From a basic means of transport and opportunity for leisure through to being a religious act, walking has served as a significant philosophical, literary and historical subject. Thoreau's 1851 lecture on Walking or the Romantic walks of the Wordsworths at Grasmere in the early 19th Century, for example, helped create a philosophical foundation for the importance of the act of walking as an act of engagement with nature. Similarly, and sometimes inseparable from secular appreciation, pilgrimage trails provide opportunities for finding self and others in the travails of the walk. More recently, walking has been embraced as a means of encouraging greater health and well-being, community improvement and more sustainable means of travel. Yet despite the significance of the subject of walking there is as yet no integrated treatment of the subject in the social science literature.?This handbook therefore brings together a number of the main themes on the study of walking from different disciplines and literatures into a single volume that can be accessed from across the social sciences. It is divided into five main sections: culture, society and historical context; social practices, perceptions and behaviours; hiking trails and pilgrimage routes; health, well-being and psychology; and method, planning and design. Each of these highlights current approaches and major themes in research on walking in a range of different environments. This handbook carves out a unique niche in the study of walking. The international and cross-disciplinary nature of the contributions of the book are expected to be of interest to numerous academic fields in the social and health sciences, as well as to urban and regional planners and those in charge of the management of outdoor recreation and tourism globally."--Provided by publisher |
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Fitness walking.
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Hiking.
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Pedestrian areas.
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Pedestrian facilities design.
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Walking.
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Fitness walking
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Hiking
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Pedestrian areas
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Pedestrian facilities design
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Walking
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Ram, Yael
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Shoval, Noam
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| ISBN |
9781315638461 |
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1315638460 |
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