Walking in L.A.

„As soon as you start walking in Los Angeles you are a threat to public order, like a dog wandering in the road.“
(Jean Baudrillard)

It takes rather more than a bit of pedestrianism to disrupt the public order of L.A. As far as that goes, L.A. can pretty much handle a dog wandering in the road, too. Print the legend if you must, but don’t expect all us Angelenos to live it.
(Geoff Nicholson)

Fernsehturm
August 6, 2011 Berlin, Neue Grünstraße

Gesegnete Werkstatt
March 31, 2007 Berlin, Groß-Berliner Damm

Haltestelle
October 16, Berlin Spandauer Straße

There’s a man called Neil Hopper who runs the the website walkinginla.com. It features austere, minimalist records of his walks around the city. A typical walk might be called „June 23, 2007 Bell Gardens, Pico Rivera, Montebello“ or „September 24, 2005 Normandie Ave, Venice Blvd“, and that will be all the „text“ he provides.
(from: The Lost Art of Walking by Geoff Nicholson)

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