…moderate social deviance or class non-conformism I have imputed to the first generation of pedestrians. Improved roads, after all, were one of the principal means by which the country was building a national communications network...

Pedestrianism, [William Bingley] claims, is the most ‘useful’ mode of travel, ‘if health and strength are not wanting.”To a naturalist, it is evidently so; since, by this means, he is enabled to examine the country...

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.