The Routledge international handbook of walking / edited by C. Michael Hall, Yael Ram & Noam Shoval.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hall, Colin Michael, 1961- editor.

Ram, Yael, editor.

Shoval, Noam, editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Walking.

Fitness walking.

Hiking.

Pedestrian areas.

Pedestrian facilities design.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

International handbook of walking

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction : walking : more than pedestrian / C. Michael Hall, Yael Ram & Noam Shoval

Walking in the capitalist city : on the socio-economic origins of walkable urbanism / Anja Hälg Bieri

Radical twenty-first century walkers and the romantic qualities of leisure walking / Phil Smith

Long-distance walking in films : promises of healing and redemption on the trail / Warwick Frost & Jennifer Laing

Walking as pedagogy / Karein K. Goertz

Walking in Germany : between recreation and ideology / Dirk Reiser & Vanessa Jansen-Meinen

Walking and art : perambulating pleasures / Ray Boland & Bryan Wheeler

Dog walking as a leisure activity / Yoshitaka Iwasaki

Walking in Switzerland : urban and not so leisurely / Derek P.T.H. Christie, Emmanuel Ravalet & Vincent Kaufmann

Purposeful leisure mobilities : reframing the walk to school / Debbie Hopkins & Sandra Mandic

Spiking : the quest for challenge and meaning among hikers / Ron McCarville & Chantel Pilon

On the beaten track : how do narratives from organised hiking differ from "real" hiking narratives? / Outi Rantala & Seija Tuulentie

Comparisons between hikers and non-hikers in Iceland : attitudes, behaviours and perceptions / Anna Dóra Saeþórsdóttir, C. Michael Hall & Þorkell Stefánsson

Passeggiata nuova : social travel in the era of the smartphone / Andrew Mondschein

Walking online : a netnography of China's emerging hiking communities / Alexandra Witte & Kevin Hannam

Hiking trails and pilgrimage routes

Hut-to-hut-hiking trails : a comparative analysis of popular hiking destinations / Sven Gross & Kim Werner

Taking you home : the Masar Ibrahim al-Khalil in Palestine / Rami Isaac

The Wales Coast Path : the world's first national coastal footpath / Stephen Miles

Improving the experience quality of hiking trails : a setting-experience-relationship approach / Diana Müller, Heinz-Dieter Quack, Kathrin Schumacher, Franziska Thiele

Hikers preferences and dmo strategies : contrasting perspectives and conflicting views? / Ingeborg M. Nordbø

Re-signifying smuggling : cross-border walking trails as a tourist experience in the Spanish-Portuguese border / Heriberto Cairo & María Lois

The solo-hike : a journey of distance and closeness / Hannelene Schilar

Walking to care : pilgrimage as slow tourism development Kumano-kodo pilgrimage, Wakayama, Japan / Kumi Kato

Hindu pilgrimage in India and walkability : theory and praxis / Subhajit Das & Manirul Islam

Health, well-being and psychology

Rambling on : exploring the complexity of walking as a meaningful activity / Kirsty Finnie, Tania Wiseman & Neil Ravenscroft

Life-changing walks of mid-life adults / Robert Saunders, Betty Weiler & Jennifer Laing

Walking to promote increased physical activity / Ian Patterson, Shane Pegg & Wan Rabiah Wan Omar

Taking the first step : from physical inactivity towards a healthier lifestyle through leisure walking / Miia Grénman & Juulia Räikkönen

Dog walking in urban greenspaces / Giovanna Bertella

Walkable places for visitors : assessing and designing for walkability / Yael Ram & C. Michael Hall

Walking on the shoulders of giants : historical mountain trails as management tools? / Daniel Svensson, Sverker Sörlin, Annika Dahlberg, Peter Fredman, & Sandra Wall-Reinius

Wayfinding design for rural flânerie in France / Hélène Ducros

Community benefits from walking tourism in western Norway / Merete Kvamme Fabritius

When walking is no longer possible : investigating crowding and coping practices in urban tourism using commented walks / Monika Popp

Assessing the walkability of urban public space with GIS technology : the hidden dimensions of security and community heritage / Peter Schofield, Adele Doran & Ray Nolan

Developing a spatial pattern analysis method for evaluating trails in the mountains : the case of Beban Pass in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina / Marisol Vereda & María Laura Borla

Improving the walkability of the Camino / Xosé Somoza-Medina & Rubén Camilo Lois González

Walk on : conclusions and the future / C. Michael Hall & Yael Ram.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Routledge international handbook of walking.

ISBN:

9781317271116

1317271114

OCLC:

998798117

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