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	THE MAN, in his two-footed destiny, is compelled to walk. That's the way he functions best, and in my case, it's when I walk like that, randomly, without any precise plan or itinerary in a city, that I get ideas. Some portend it is a question of oxygenating the brains. City walking is a concept for the future, necessary for the happiness of future cities. Let's first consider it in the ethical way: the pedestrian avoids agressivity. Facing the "super mass market" that enjoys thyself with its constant automobile diarrhoea, the fact of being a pedestrian is already a rebellious action, so called "elitists", honest ecologists. The use of the bicycle, so useful during transportation strikes, is only a provisory phenomenon. The anti-automobile struggle has always existed, it's a question of civilisation. Already in 1762, Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote in "Emile": "I've always seen those who travel in good, soft and comfortable carriages as sad, dreaming, sick or in a bad mood, while pedestrians are always gay, joyful, light and happy with everything. The pedestrian status is noble. Not bound to a severe code, the walker is a creator. When he loiters in Paris, he anticipates an ideal walking, inspired by a travel guide or a metro map, questions a by passer, takes this street, stops at a monument, has a coffee in a café, looks at a display window. In the formidable Parisian labyrinth, the pedestrian creates complex itinerary structures, a form, an object composed by steps, a pedestrian "design"! And I would even add more: in the long term, the modern multimedia, still in its children shoes today, will abolish all professional trips. The pedestrian will exist again, locomotion means will diminish, and red axes will turn green. Routes will become tracks and I dare to announce that one day, Parisians will tread a day what they are hiding today in their wildest dreams: paths............. Order Arthur's walking map by mailing to Armedv@aol.com evocating my name : Jack.

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