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Walking is a mode of engaging and experiencing places. Through habitual walking and wandering one does not just move through physical space but actively takes part and contributes to the social and cultural dynamics of a place. On foot, the body participates in place’s temporal patterns of activity and it is an agent in processes of repetitive change in urban places. Rhythms of body and city merge through the experience of walking. Walking is in itself a spatial and social rhythm, and through walking one perceives and lives urban places as a constellation of spatial, social, cultural, natural and other sensory rhythms – urban rhythms. Urban rhythms are everywhere in human activity and life in urban places. They take concrete forms, interact and mingle adjusting to each other, and together they characterise everyday social-spatial environment. These are recurrent and cyclical repetitions in the form of activities, events, sequences of objects, patterns or shadows, to name just a few, which one perceives and experiences, and with which one interacts in urban places. Urban rhythms embody time and are place specific. Consequently, they nurture senses of time, characterising temporally urban places, and senses of place, part of place’s everyday representatio