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View this email in your browser Exploring the Urban Forest with Paul Wood - Fitzrovia - Bloomsbury 6.15pm-8.15pm Wednesday 20 September Start: Goodge Street tube station Less than a week to book your tickets!  Book now Paul Wood is the author of‘London’s Street Trees’, a beautiful and practical field guide to the city’s urban forest. Paul is interested in looking at London through its street trees; how they relate to the built environment, their cultural and social history, and of course the remarkable variety of native and exotic species to be encountered as we Explore the Urban Forest. The first planned street trees in London were used to embellish JosephBazalgette’s Thames Embankment completed in 1870. A trend was started, Northumberland Avenue and streets around Whitehall were next to be developed with tree pits constructed as part of the new roadways. Other London streets followed suit and a civic planting craze continued throughout the rest of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. On our walk, we shall encounter early nineteenth century streets in Fitzrovia with infill planting, planned boulevards in Bloomsbury and postwar regeneration. Read more or Book now Camden Town: Dreams of Another London Wednesday 27 September 6.15pm-8.15pm Start: Camden Town tube station, Kentish Town Road exit NW1 8NH Finish: Waterstones Camden High Street To bag an ‘early bird discounted ticket’ you must book today! Book now Tom Bolton is an author, researcher, reviewer and walking historian with whom we have been tracingLondon’s Lost rivers and revealing neighbourhoods that have vanished from this great metropolis. He is a music and film reviewer and is a regular contributor to Caught by the River where he is recounting journeys on foot around the coast of Essex.  Check out Caught by the River when you are next on-line or try one of their evening events - see below. To mark the publication of his new book, ‘Camden Town: Dreams of Another London’ (British Library Publications – due out 28 September, 2017), author Tom Bolton is leading a walk looking at Camden’s culture and history. Camden Town perfectly embodies the cultural mix for which London is famed. Alongside the buzzing Lock market, the pubs and music venues and the eclectic shops, there is another Camden – impossible crowds, shameful poverty, bad housing, gang fights, murders…Read more or Book now   Further news from the Museum of Walking and beyond Just this week, we have discoveredBeckenham Place Park Soundwalk a new audio, geo-located app and trail capturing the memories of local residents and park users.  Composers James Wilkie and Daniel Rosswill be contributing to next month’s First Monday Sound Salon, and you candownload the app for free and try it for yourself. We were invited were invited by theArchitecture Foundation, to join a band of supa-knowledgeable architectural and social historians on a guided walk of the South Bank and to the launch of their comprehensive London Architecture Guide iPhone app (free), incorporating over 1,100 of the city's most remarkable buildings from Roman times to the present day.  The great news is that you can book guided tours too,. The first Architecture of Power walk starts 2pm Saturday 23 September, followed by the Architecture of Life at 2pm on Sunday 24 September, andArchitecture of Money at 2pm on 7 October. Limited tickets start at £12 and are available fromlondonarchitectureguide.org.   We have updated the Sound Walk Sunday map and directory with some further contributions, so why not try out an audio walk this weekend?  Find one here Further afield in Birmingham, Talking Walking interviewee, Ben Waddington has drawn together an intriguing mix of walks and talks for the Still Walking Festival - it is a fantastic programme that includes the British Army and tightrope walkers. Read more   Across the Atlantic, St Paul, MN hosts America Walks #WalkingSummit which you can follow on Twitter and next week, Calgary hosts this year’s Walk 21 Conference.  We would love to have gone to both. Talking Walking interviewee Nick Hunt has a new book out: Where the wilds are - It describes a series of walks following the invisible pathways of some of Europe's named winds - Helm, Bora, Sirocco, Foehn, Mistral - to discover how they affect landscapes, people and cultures. Find out more here And finally,... Caught by the River is a quintessential blog read by hundreds of journalists with contributors from many disciplines (including Tom Bolton) bringing rich and emotive content - it’s a must read in the Museum’s on-line library.  But the great news is that you can also enjoy Caught by the River live - check out their next live event on Wednesday 18 October at the Social in Little Portland Street. http://www.caughtbytheriver.net/2017/08/08/july-skies-kate-carr-robert-selby-diary-of-the-last-man/ Copyright © 2017 Rethinking Cities Ltd. - Museum of Walking, All rights reserved.  You are receiving this email because you have either corresponded with us, or participated in one of our talks, talkshops, walks or walkshops.  Our mailing address is:  Rethinking Cities Ltd. - Museum of Walking Greenwich London, Greater London SE10 0 United Kingdom Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? 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