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Brooklyn Bridge: walking a bridge as a piece of city infrastructure
A pedestrian crossing reveals the Brooklyn Bridge’s approaches, suspended span and continuing transport role.
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Routes & connections
Follow rivers, bridges and former transport corridors through the city.
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Chicago Riverwalk: following the river below the street
Chicago’s Riverwalk creates a second pedestrian level where bridges, river traffic and downtown buildings are seen from below.
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Rose Kennedy Greenway: following the surface of a buried highway
The Rose Kennedy Greenway is a chain of public landscapes over a highway tunnel, where the spaces between neighborhoods matter as much as the gardens.
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Boston Harborwalk: choosing a waterfront segment instead of assuming one continuous stroll
Boston’s waterfront path is a network of public access spaces created across many properties.
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Schuylkill Banks: understanding a river trail inside the city
A river trail and an over-water boardwalk negotiate the narrow space between Philadelphia’s infrastructure and the Schuylkill.
C and O Canal Georgetown: following a canal through a city neighborhood
Georgetown’s canal explains how a level-water transport system crossed a changing landscape.
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Embarcadero San Francisco: following a waterfront shaped by infrastructure
San Francisco’s waterfront promenade sits on the infrastructure of a historic port and faces new engineering demands.
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Lands End San Francisco: choosing a city-edge walk around terrain and weather
Lands End follows a coastal landscape where an old railway alignment meets unstable cliffs and open water.
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Venice Canals Los Angeles: walking waterside streets while respecting residential life
Venice’s surviving canals are a maintained residential landscape with public paths along the water.
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Ballard Locks: understanding a working waterway from the visitor paths
The Ballard Locks connect boats, water levels and fish migration at the boundary between fresh and salt water.
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Tom McCall Waterfront Park: following a riverfront reclaimed from a road
Waterfront Park records a deliberate decision to replace a road with public access to the Willamette River.
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Embarcadero San Diego: connecting waterfront landmarks without overplanning the walk
San Diego’s Embarcadero combines public paths with maritime operations, museums and changing waterfront development.
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Lafitte Greenway: following a former transport corridor through neighborhoods
A canal and railway corridor now provides a different kind of connection across New Orleans.
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Santa Fe River Park: following a river landscape through the city
The Santa Fe River is both an urban landscape and part of a managed mountain-to-city water system.
San Antonio River Walk: choosing a section of a river system with different characters
The River Walk changes character from downtown promenade to museum corridor and restored river habitat.
Ann and Roy Butler Trail Austin: choosing a manageable section beside Lady Bird Lake
The Butler Trail links Austin’s lakefront through a combination of older shoreline paths, bridges and a later boardwalk connection.
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River Street Savannah: understanding the level change between town and river
River Street’s most distinctive feature is its vertical relationship with the bluff, retaining walls and commercial buildings above it.
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The Battery Charleston: a waterfront walk through defense, residence and commemoration
The Battery is a constructed waterfront edge whose walls and public promenade developed through repeated responses to water and urban growth.
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Miami Beach Boardwalk: choosing a section of a long oceanfront route
Miami Beach’s oceanfront route is now a connected Beachwalk, even though the older name boardwalk remains familiar.
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Detroit Riverwalk: following a working international river from public paths
How a continuous waterside route emerged from separate parcels, industrial land and neighborhood connections.
Three Rivers Heritage Trail Pittsburgh: selecting a riverfront segment and a clear return
The trail network makes river geography legible, provided that branches and crossings are planned together.
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Stone Arch Bridge Minneapolis: a railway bridge reinterpreted as a river crossing
A former railway crossing reveals engineering history as well as the riverfront landscape.
Confluence Park Denver: how two waterways meet within the city
At Confluence Park, the meeting of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River explains both the path network and a long river-restoration effort.
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Chain of Rocks Bridge: reading an unusual river crossing on foot
The Old Chain of Rocks Bridge’s bend reflects constraints in the river, while its later reuse turns a former road crossing into a walking and cycling route.
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Baltimore Inner Harbor: looking beyond attractions to the shape of the waterfront
Baltimore’s Inner Harbor can be understood as a changing relationship between water, former port land and a continuous public edge.
Providence River Pedestrian Bridge: a crossing that changes the way two neighborhoods connect
The Michael S. Van Leesten Bridge links the river’s two sides while providing room to pause, gather and look along the water.