Beautiful printable walking maps, made by a local. Print one at A3, fold it into your pocket, and go.
The riverfront where the modern city began, the old walled town it grew from, and the plane-tree streets it lives in now. One map is finished; two are being drawn.
The waterfront boulevard and the museum blocks behind it — a century of Shanghai architecture in one walk, every notable building picked out by hand.
The route is walked and fixed. It runs:
The plane-tree quarter — quiet lanes, old villas and café streets west of the centre. The maker's own favourite of the three, and the slowest walk of the set.
Start at the top of the Bund, where the Suzhou Creek meets the Huangpu, and work south along the waterfront — then turn inland into the Rockbund blocks, where the museums are. Every building that matters is coloured in; the rest of the city stays quiet grey, so the walk reads at a glance.
Choose a neighbourhood, not a checklist. Each map covers one walkable district, drawn at a scale your legs will thank you for.
Download the PDF and print it at A3 at any copy shop — or keep the phone version open as you go. Both come with every map.
No signal needed, no battery anxiety, no algorithmic detours. Just the streets, the buildings that matter, and your own pace.
Shanghai is first, and we're finishing it properly before moving on. Then one city at a time — each gets its own maps and its own ebook.
The Bund & Rockbund is finished. Old City and Wutong District are in progress — three maps, then the Shanghai ebook.
Canals, gardens and old-town lanes — a natural second city, an hour from Shanghai.
The old capital — city wall, plane trees and republican-era streets.
West Lake and the lanes behind it, walked the long way round.
Hutong grids and imperial axes — a city that rewards walking more than any other.
Inside the Ming city wall, and the Muslim Quarter's maze of food streets.
Thirteen dynasties deep — the old city and the Longmen Grottoes.
Teahouses, markets and the slowest streets in China.
The mountain city — stairs, bridges and streets stacked on streets.
The order of the next cities isn't fixed yet — it follows how the Shanghai maps do, and which city readers ask for most.
Each city's maps also come as a short ebook on Amazon. Every map becomes three kinds of pages — so a three-map city makes a 15–20 page book you can read on the train in, then walk from.
Shanghai will be the first book, once the Old City and Wutong District maps join the Bund. Single maps stay on Etsy; the collected book lives on Amazon.
Shanghai ebook — in preparationPlus a cover, an introduction and practical notes per city: printing, getting around, and how the maps fit together.
Citywalk Maps is a one-person studio. The maps start from OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps data, then get walked, checked and redrawn by hand — street by street, building by building — until what's left on the page is what you'd actually want in your pocket.
No “top ten” lists, no sponsored pins. If a place is coloured in, it's because it's worth your steps.
The studio is in Shanghai; the ambition is the whole of China, one walkable neighbourhood at a time.
“The Bund sheet took the better part of a day. The English was mostly fine — the hard part was the names. Some are so long they swallow the street they label, so each one had to be shortened by hand until the map could breathe.”
— from the maker's build notes, November 2026
This close-up of the Rockbund blocks — the museum, Yuanmingyuan Road, Huangpu Park — is a real piece of the finished map, free to download. Print it, walk it, and see if the full sheet earns its place in your bag.
Download the sample (JPG)