Over the past academic year the University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign has been engaged in a unique experiement in learning. They have held a series of workshops entitled, "Walking as Knowing as Making: A Peripatetic Investigation of Place."
http://www.walkinginplace.org/converge/index.htm
This quote by Gary Snyder i remeniscent of what I was trying to say in my address to the XXXXx
“We learn a place and how to visualize spatial relationships, as children, on foot and with imagination.Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities.”
Gary Snyder (“Blue Mountains Constantly Walking”, in The Practice of the Wild)
Further Reading;
Bibliography
http://www.walkinginplace.org/converge/bibliography.htm