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9/5/2021

The Scandalous Six Week Walk That Inspired D. H. Lawrence's Most Popular Novels (excerpt)

by Annabel Abbs

In 1912, Frieda von Richthofen made a six-week hike from Bavaria to northern Italy with her lover D.H. Lawrence. It was, for him, a journey of of inspiration. For her, it was a more complicated search for liberation.

8/18/19

Walkability Is at the Heart of Human Societies

by Antonia Malchik

We’ve forgotten about shared space, about public roads, and the fact that tens of thousands of years of human history demonstrates a profound need for the daily, in-person interactions walkability provides.