Learning to Walk — Finding Joy in the City

How to find happiness in the city? Some read, some listen to music, some exercise, and some choose to walk. The city we are accustomed to is always busy, complex, and full of toiling. On holidays, people prefer to go to the countryside or look forward to traveling to other places. Finding happiness by walking in the city seems to be different from what the public generally believes. This time, urban researcher Sampson Wong not only uncovers the beauty of the city but also, through careful design, attempts to break the routine of daily walking and experience unexpected joy in life.
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Eight proposals, twenty-four exercises, to change our experience of walking in the city and find the small meanings of strolling. "Walking is not necessarily about producing knowledge or rushing; leisurely walking can be about pursuing happiness, self-healing, introspection, enjoyment, or even the meaning of life." — Sampson Wong