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05/06/2008 Archived Entry: "In praise of the lost art of strolling"

It was the French who first grasped the cultural significance of walking.

The time was the 1800s, the era when Baron Haussmann was reinventing Paris as a city of wide avenues, arcades and, above all, of light.

http://www.thestar.com/article/420945