Our director of Social Cities, Milton Friesen, decided last month that his trip to the Congress for the New Urbanism 23 conference in Dallas, Texas, from his home in Hamilton, Ontario, would involve only wheels and walking, no wings. One of the themes that you’ll find in new urbanism circles is the idea of path as place. That means that sidewalks, roads, streets, and other means of getting around are not only lines that connect where we really need to be, they are themselves places where we socialize, shop, read, watch, listen, and live out our lives. My experiment was driven by a desire to learn: what kind of place is the Amtrak pathway?In his blog entry for the Tamarack Institute's Seeking Community blog, Milton discusses some of the differences between flying and keeping one's feet on the ground.