The volume’s contributors provide new and global perspectives on urban walking practices through their treatment of a variety of genres (literature, film, journalism, autobiography, epistolary correspondence, photography, fashion, music, digital media) and regions (Europe, Asia, the Americas, Africa, the Middle East). This volume theorizes well-known urban characters like the idler, lounger, dandy, , , shopper, collector, and detective and also proposes new iterations of the as fashion model, , cruiser, musician, vampire, postcolonial activist, video game avatar and gamer.