In contemporary urban design and planning discourse, walkability has emerged as a central concept for capturing, analyzing and enhancing the built environment's capacity to facilitate and promote walking. Despite its broad applicability, existing methodologies often reduce walkability to mobility-centered technical metrics, neglecting the embodied, sensory, and cultural dimensions of urban walking. This project aims to explore walkability through an embodied, human-centered lens and utilize a design-driven research approach that incorporates the diverse lived experiences and urban imaginaries. Grounded in developing theoretical frameworks of corporeity and place, this research adopts an interdisciplinary methodology to examine walkability as a dynamic and performative process shaped by the interactions between bodies, memories, and cultural narratives within built environments. The project will leverage an extensive literature review, empirical fieldwork, and methods development to advance both the theoretical discourse and practical applications of walkability analysis with human-centered insights for more inclusive and vibrant urban environments.