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Now HERE'S a Challenge!

1/23/2014

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Four years, 120,000 city blocks.  A life long New York City resident, Sociologist William Helmreich decided to systematically walk all the city streets of all five boroughs - Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and The Bronx.  His newly published book The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6000 Miles in the City  chronicles his journey.  An Atlantic Cities review gives some background including a great quote from Helmreich “ 'Every block can be interesting. It’s not just about covering ground, it’s about how you cover ground.' ”

Helmreich takes his students out to walk neighborhoods "teaching them to use its neighborhoods as a sort of living laboratory".

I haven't read the book yet but it is on the top of my reading list.  Published by Princeton University Press it is available on their website, also through academic sources on line such as JSTOR for those with access, and of course through Amazon both in hardcover and as an e-book.
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    Author: Nina Arron

    I am an enthusiastic pedestrian, urban planner, and project manager currently living in New Rochelle, New York.  I am grateful to be living in a walkable city with affordable easily accessible public transport (both trains and buses). My appreciation became even greater after spending three years back in New Zealand where  it was much harder to fit daily walking into my life in what is considered one of the great natural, green environments in the world.  

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