The Routledge International Handbook of Walking

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Preface and Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: Walking - More than pedestrian - C. Michael Hall, Yael Ram & Noam Shoval

Culture, Society and Historical Context

2 Walking in the capitalist city: On the socio-economic origins of walkable urbanism - Anja Haelg Bieri

3 Radical twenty-first century walkers and the Romantic qualities of leisure walking - Phil Smith

4 Long-distance walking in Films: Promises of healing and redemption on the trail - Warwick Frost & Jennifer Laing

5 Walking as Pedagogy - Karein K. Goertz

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

7 Walking and art: Perambulating pleasures - Ray Boland & Bryan Wheeler

Social Practices, Perceptions and Behaviours

8 Dog walking as a leisure activity - Yoshitaka Iwasaki

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

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

11 Spiking: The quest for challenge and meaning among hikers - Ron McCarville & Chantel Pilon

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

13 Comparisons between hikers and non-hikers in Iceland: attitudes, behaviours and perceptions - Anna Dora Sae?orsdottir, C. Michael Hall & ?orkell Stefansson

14 Passeggiata Nuova: Social Travel in the Era of the Smartphone - Andrew Mondschein

15 Walking Online: A netnography of China's emerging hiking communities - Alexandra Witte & Kevin Hannam

Hiking Trails and Pilgrimage Routes

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

17 Taking you home: The Masar Ibrahim Al-Khalil in Palestine - Rami Isaac

18 The Wales Coast Path: The world's first national coastal footpath - Stephen Miles

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

20 Hikers preferences and DMO strategies: contrasting perspectives and conflicting views? - Ingeborg M. Nordbo

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

22 The solo-hike - A journey of distance and closeness - Hannelene Schilar

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

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

Health, Well-being and Psychology

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

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

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

28 Taking the first step - From physical inactivity towards a healthier lifestyle through leisure walking - Miia Grenman & Juulia Raeikkoenen

29 Dog walking in urban greenspaces - Giovanna Bertella

Method, Planning and Design

30 Walkable places for visitors: Assessing and designing for walkability - Yael Ram & C. Michael Hall

31 Walking on the shoulders of giants - Historical mountain trails as management tools? - Daniel Svensson, Sverker Soerlin, Annika Dahlberg, Peter Fredman, & Sandra Wall-Reinius

32 Wayfinding design for rural flanerie in France - Helene Ducros

33 Community benefits from walking tourism in Western Norway - Merete Kvamme Fabritius

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

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

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

37 Improving the walkability of the Camino - Xose Somoza-Medina & Ruben Camilo Lois Gonzalez

38 Walk on: Conclusions and the future - C. Michael Hall & Yael Ram

Index