Park the car and walk along Monument Avenue, one of the loveliest places anywhere for an urban stroll.
For an urban stroll with a difference, a two-hour tour with architect Ike Ijeh will take you around the best Christmas illuminations in London on 29 December.
"Ithaca" appears to be Ananda's temporary flat in Bloomsbury, from which he set out to visit Radhesh, and to which the two men are now returning, after their urban stroll.
̭ Apartment from €140 (£112) a night sleeping four The walk from Edinburgh's Princes Street to the Coltbridge Holiday Apartment in the residential area of Murrayfield is one of the city's best urban strolls, passing rows of houses framed in Georgian and Victorian stone and rich woodland around the local golf course and Murrayfield Stadium.
The effect may have been much more intense in the 19th century when crowds created a different way of walking; the new urban citizen strolled the city and attended to its exotic sensations and shocks, an anonymous wanderer amid all the other wanderers.
To my mind, this park is one of the great urban seaside strolls — nearly two miles of palm-shaded gardens, benches, joggers and dreamers serenaded by the mingled roar of the Pacific Coast Highway and the waves caressing Santa Monica Beach below: an ideal place to channel the spirit of the exiles.
I thought about those old visions of urban America while strolling not long ago through the Marina, a neighborhood in "new" Dubai (as opposed to "old" Dubai, mostly constructed in the 1970s).
But living in such an exclusive spot does not yet seem to have much to do with reclaiming the urban right to stroll around without fear of assault.
They wiled away the hours with Ms. Lewinsky waiting for Ms. Lewis by watching movies on television, including the somewhat sultry film "Urban Cowboy". They strolled in the mall, checking out household products at a Crate & Barrel.
For leavening, Professor Page includes the New Yorker cartoon of King Kong and Godzilla nonchalantly strolling past urban mayhem as pedestrians flee before them.
