Walking and Knowing New York City

Michael B. Kahan — 2024-02-02T08:12:44Z

“What can we learn and what can we know about a city like New York by walking through it?” Reflecting on his experience of co‑leading an experiential learning course in New York City, Michael B. Kahan explores this question and suggests the answer lies beyond the act of walking itself.
In The New York Nobody Knows, the late sociologist William B. Helmreich described the neighborhoods and people of New York City he came to know by walking every block of the city's thousands of miles of

- From the Field / New York, walking

Taking Research to the Streets

Jonathan R. Wynn & Richard E. Ocejo — 2015-06-09T05:00:00Z

Residents of iconic neighborhoods in New York City have grown accustomed to walking tourism in their midst—clumps of curious observers and amateur historians following a knowledgeable guide who points to signs of the past in the contemporary landscape. This multimedia article follows sociologists Jonathan Wynn and Richard Ocejo on a tour whose subject is both the East Village neighborhood and the phenomenon of the walking tour itself. We follow the guides from Astor Place to the Bowery, via

- From the Field / gentrification, United States, New York, night, tourism, walking tour guides, bars, East Village, nightlife, walking

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Walking and Knowing New York City

Taking Research to the Streets