ABSTRACT
This chapter explores walking as a research tool, and based on own fieldwork, assess its potential to open up the field, stimulate unexpected ways of thinking, and offer new insights. It presents several ideas about modes of walking and the possibilities it offers and proceeds to case study of the contemporary Prague cityscape based on experience of walking along the Rokytka. The chapter outlines the understanding of walking as a research practice and draws on work by anthropologists and landscape archaeologists and combine them with insights from geography in order to develop a theoretical background for people own practiced walking along the stream. It gives an overview of the Rokytka River and its geography and it describes the spaces through which the Rokytka flows and which it connects. The chapter describes the experience of these spaces and to turn them into places by linking the places that visited, experienced, discussed and thought about into a whole.
