One of the chief joys of living in a city is walking it—not as a means of transportation, but for enlightenment. “Walking is not a sport,” wrote Frédéric Gros in A Philosophy of Walking, his elegiac manifesto to bipedal life. “When you are walking, there is only one sort of performance that counts: the brilliance of the sky, the splendor of the landscape.” The New York–based artist Alex Wolfe would agree, and add that human-made infrastructure plays an equally powerful role in orienting our lives.
