Sharif reconceives walking through actor-network theory as a mutable network of human and non-human relations rather than a unitary behaviour. The paper’s central device is stabilization: recurring relational patterns allow walking practices to become temporarily identifiable while remaining capable of shaping, transformation and interrelation with other activities. This shifts urban analysis away from pedestrian movement as a measurable transport category toward walking as an emergent socio-material practice. Methodologically, the study combines desk research, sixty short go-along interviews, follow-up in-depth interviews and repeated site observations, using each method to compensate for the others’ blind spots. Participants can demonstrate spatial habits in action, later explain them, while observation follows practices without direct intervention. The theoretical bridge to ANT is explicit, but the larger contribution is to relational urbanism: bodies, routes, park features, purposes, temporal conditions and encounters form provisional networks. Urban activity becomes legible through recurrence without being reduced to fixed typologies.
