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A walk through the City becomes the trigger for a rambling meditation on space, time and human interaction, seen through chance encounters with evocative objects. The narrative of Pedestrian Is composed of several discrete regions, each region providing a distinct visual and textual experience. From a hommage to the noir city films of the 50′s, to a ballet of everyday objects, or to an examination of store windows as shrines, Pedestrian provides an opportunity to explore the hidden meanings of the everyday [Weintraub REF].  If anything permits walking and unifes the uburban world, is the shopping mall. Fully developed in the USA and Canada and under development in many European and Asian countries, the mall is geared primarily to the use of the car and is a consequence of suburbanisations in big cities. Without any exageration, the mall functions as a modern walking and talking environment. Amato [RED on foot] suggests "a village for the villageless." Aside from shopping, malls provide a haven for eating, exercise, meet ups, stroll, bank services, medical services and, religious practice. Julien van Remoortere, Belgium's most famous walker, has repeadetly spoekn of "making a walk" rather than "taking a walk" in his more than forty books. His description of making a walk is associated with the fact that in our modern world, in city and countryside, walks are made up to fit the coordinates of scenary, time, cost, fitness of individuals, the convenience of driving to the walking site, easy access to facilities, etc.