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Charm of landscape assumes perceptible embodiment in association with delectabilities served by the palate. Landscape is tasted. Harris (2005) revisited the idea of adding value to goods and experiences we consume. Value is evinced and assimilated during the process of consumption. Sometimes it is a result of predesign into the good or experiential offering. At other times, value is a fluid, spontaneous outcome. Tschumi (1994) has recounted the idea of experience of urban landscape as one set eminently in the frame of movement – across space, across events. While walking and eating, value is added to both landscape and food. There is a space where discourse on pleasures (Harris, 2005) can be carried out without retreat to externally-defined (and sometimes non-evidentially-robust) behavioral hedges, without the smother or strangulation of thou-shall-nots, a pure space where aesthetics, hand-in-hand with experience, is the lingua franca and where possibilities of genuine experiences can be honestly and authentically explored. Future directions There is still work to be done. It was mentioned above, for instance, that pattern of the S conditions (eater proximity) was mixed. More model runs will need to be carried out in order to identify more stable outcomes. Above, we also discussed some curious increase-decrease transitions under the E conditions (eater starting proportions). That is another enquiry which merits further exploration. It will be insightful to be able to conduct more model runs with a higher population density. In the current explorations, we have been compelled to employ only a proportion of desirable population. Running models with larger population densities require considerable computational power. That is a significant challenge. Finally, it will be instructive to collect a range of additional data on walking while eating – for instance, data on the effect of eating on walking speed. In relatively unexplored areas of enquiry, it is often the case that multiple questions and issues arise, but those also open up avenues of research and discovery. References Alonso-Alonso, Miguel, Stephen C. Woods, Marcia Pelchat, Patricia S. Grigson, Eric Stice, Sadaf Farooqi...Gary Beauchamp (2015), ‘Food reward system: Current perspectives and future research needs’, Nutrition Reviews 73: 296–307. doi: 10.1093/nutrit/nuv002 Anecdote 1. https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/14853/what-is-wrong-with-eating-while- walking-in-japan-it-doesnt-seem-to-be-an-issue [21 April 2018] Anecdote 2. https://www.researchgate.net/post/Do_you_eat_in_the_street [21 April 2018] Anecdote 3. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/post/Do_you_eat_in_the_street [21 April 2018] Appleton, K. M. (2006), ‘Behavioural determinants of daily energy intake during a 28 day outdoor expedition in arctic Norway’, Scandinavian Journal of Food and Nutrition 50: 139-146. doi: 10.1080/17482970600947522 Barkley, Jacob E. and Andrew Lepp (2016), ‘Cellular telephone use during free-living walking significantly reduces average walking speed,’ BMX Research Notes 9: 195. DOI 10.1186/ s13104-016-2001-y 206