Visiting the highest points in the each of the five boroughs in a day, using only transit and walking. This page is from 2003 and won't last much longer (the pictures have already rotted).

walking reading list

heat maps for NYC based on user-input parameters for a dozen variables.

1/19/08 – 7.77 mi. (your mileage may vary / not including part at the beginning before car ride)

3.3 mi / Cambridgeport

"Well if I had a rent control apartment, I'd refuse to die too." [typology project linked in a less hilarious comment]

3.2mi

The first 2 things on the Free-Market Walking tour of the Loop are (a) the reversal of the Chicago River and the many bascule bridges (big gov't x 2). On the next page, the Eastland disaster is somehow blamed on regulations demanding lifeboats (???)

Walking tours of NYC. Great article 'in praise of walking tours'

"On 11/ 7/1862, a group of about 1,700 Dakota, primarily women, children and elderly, were force-marched in a four-mile long procession from the Lower Sioux Agency to a concentration camp at Fort Snelling" (thanks, csp)

via pruned via kio

"this particular EPRAM is a random unresolved acronym chosen at the drop of a hat in 2002" - (things I thought I had bookmarked months ago)

if you're looking for someone to have sex with, you live in the city; if you've got someone to have sex with, you live in the suburbs.