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(i.e., walked more slowly) versus those in the ‘no-use’ category” (paragraph 11). They found no statistical difference between the talking and texting conditions. Bosina and Weidmann (2016) recorded walking speed for different trip purposes. Between purposes of business, commuting, shopping and leisure, they found walking speed for leisure (1.10ms-1) to be slowest. In the current study, we considered the case of people eating while walking. We speculated that eating, as other behaviors (such as talking on the phone) which demand some attention, is matched generally with a slower walking speed. We speculated that while there would be a range of walking speeds while eating, it could be as slow as walking pace for leisure, particularly since it is the case that, often, people eating are doing so at leisure. The point in all this is not to assail eating in favor of more rapid movement of people along the street. The appropriate design response – and here is a critical, significant matter, a worthy lesson, a design realization incumbent on the designer – must consider experience of the city wholistically: i.e. at a grander, richer level of engagement and meaning. While a city is intended to work for commerce, it ought to be recognized also that the city is meant to be a wellspring and framer of experiences for people – and that includes core human pursuits encapsulated by related ideals such as enjoyment, pleasure, amusement, diversion, recreation and leisure. The perceptive, thoughtful designer recognizes that what needs to be pursued is the kind of probe that can proffer some insight into dynamics, ebbs and flows and mutations of behaviors that city dwellers might exemplify in their pursuit of pleasure and happiness within the city. Landscape deepening: Contemplations on augmenting value of landscape Scheuch (in Godbey, 1976) introduced the term, “time deepening” (an analogy of the economic term, capital deepening), to frame an episode of performing multiple tasks simultaneously in order to fulfil a greater number of personal needs or desires and, by that, using time more efficiently. We extend the analogy to landscape and space. We propose that people heighten experience of landscape by performing more actions that go beyond merely looking at it. For instance, we add movement through landscape and thereby accumulate points of view (and appreciation) of it. We test aspects of landscape by provoking our encounter with them through probes by senses other than visual. We re-mould landscape by co-insertion of self in it conjointly with other people. We re-plot, re-conceptualize or model a cognitive map of landscape by allowing ourself to be seduced by landmarks to which we are drawn. In all these engagements, we ep-aestheticize landscape. We re-mobilize landscape through intensification or magnification of our affective relationship with it. Inertia is decoupled from discovery of landscape. Landscape is “dynamicized.” In short, we deepen landscape. Some of the most deepened experiences of the physical and social landscape have occurred, for us, while eating and walking. Complementarily, experience of food has also been characteristically enjoyable – but in a paradoxically pervading, yet uncentered-on-food or unkeen-about-food way. The experience simply reduces physicalness of food into an aura or an impression of pleasure. Eating, however, is not the point or the question anymore, as it dissolves into delight of landscape and landscape, in turn, percolates into taste to co-author a new, blended form of emotional substantiality. Aesthetic [or experience] of landscape amalgamates with experience [or aesthetic] of taste. Landscape becomes an indulgence. 205