Jane's Walk USA

 

May 1 & 2, 2010

 

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"No one can find what will work for our cities by looking at...

 

suburban garden cities, manipulating scale models,

or inventing dream cities . . .


. . . you've got to get out and walk."

 

-Jane Jacobs
"Downtown is for People"
from the Exploding Metropolis

 

 


Jane's Walk is a series of
free neighborhood walking tours
that helps people get in touch
with their environment and
with each other,
by bridging social
and geographic gaps and
creating spaces for cities
to discover themselves . . .

. . . all over again.


Are you ready to start
re-discovering your city?
Learn how to
create your own Jane's Walk!

If you are interested in bringing
Jane's Walk to your community,
either by offering a walk
or programming a series of them,
get in touch to learn more.




Jane's Walk NEWS

 

 

2010:

First Jane's Walk announced for Los Angeles, CA!!

Hosted by the non-profit Smart Gals.  Click here for the details of the walk.

 

2009:

Jane's Walk 2009, A Tremendous Success!

 

Jane's Walk 2009 (May 2 & 3) was a smashing success! Over 10,000 people across North America got out and explored their cities - and we officially went global with one walk in Mumbai, India. Participants and volunteer tour guides report feeling elated and inspired after connecting with so many people, in so many different places about how we care about our the present and future of our neighbourhood and neighbours.

 

Jane's Walks has quickly become a powerful and adaptable vehicle for bringing people together to express their hopes and insights for livable and resilient places to live and work.

 

If you want to see some photos from Jane's Walk 2009, check this flickr photo pool, and read below for some stories and comments. Please drop us a line and let us know how Jane's Walk went in your neighbourhood: •This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it•

 

Jane’s Walk USA had 33 walks and 4 rolls in 20 cities across the United States and has generated new connections and new friendships.   People's observations of the places they love has led to new discoveries about the way their places function.  Take a look at the following links to see images and stories from Jane's Walk 2009.


Pictures from Jane's Walk Phoenix

Pictures from Jane's Walk San Francisco


More images and stories from '09 to come . . .

More exciting news from our '09 walks:

  • 16 CalPoly Landscape Architecture majors will be conducting their own Jane's Walk while on an extended field trip in Vienna.
  • Jane's Walk Phoenix has created an incredible blog for people to educate themselves about how cities reimagine themselves.  Click here to explore the Phoenix blog.

 

 

2008:

Jane's Walk '08 a smashing success!

Over six thousand people took part in Jane's Walk 2008 - strolling through 152 neighborhoods in ten Canadian cities - Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Guelph, London, Toronto, Ottawa, Charlottetown and Halifax- plus Salt Lake City, Utah.


Reports are pouring in from tour guides and organizers across the country about the exhilarating experience they've had getting people out walking, discovering, connecting and telling stories. Walkers prevailed over adverse weather conditions in some cities. It rained in Toronto and Guelph on one day, it snowed in Winnipeg, but most cities basked in beautiful sunshine all weekend. Regardless of the weather, people showed up in droves - it was clear that people wanted to get out and walk their cities; we persevered, we laughed, we talked, we bonded!


Jane's Walk is clearly hitting the spot with people everywhere. We are likely to expand again next year, internationally even. So drop us a line with your input on this year's events and suggestions for the future.


Thank you so much for making Jane's Walk 2008 a vibrant, fitting tribute to writer and urbanist Jane Jacobs.


Jane Farrow

Executive Director

Jane's Walk and Centre for City Ecology

 


2007:

First North American Jane's Walks

In 2007, the first American Jane's Walks took place in New York City, led by a broad assortment of guides. Adam Gopnick spotlighted the diversity of local retailers along Greenwich Avenue. Dean Olsher gave a literary tour of Eleventh Street. Jane Jacobs Medalist Omar Freilla highlighted his innovative construction material recycling project and its surrounding South Bronx neighborhood. Ron Shiffman and Norm Oder walked the controversial Atlantic Yards site in downtown Brooklyn and Shiffman teamed up with Erik Washington to do the same for the controversial Columbia University expansion in Manhattanville.  Roberta Gratz led a tour of the dazzlingly restored Eldridge Street Synagogue and its surrounding Lower East Side neighborhood.  Mosette Broderick took a group around the Upper West Side and Marci Reavan spotlighted the vibrant Second Avenue slice of the East Village.


Godine Publishing: The Genius of Common Sense

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When a supporter at Barack Obama’s presidential campaign rally asserted, “I’m holding the most important book ever written on rebuilding cities,” the candidate didn’t hesitate to chime in, “Is it Jane Jacobs?” As the man handed him, Obama agreed, “This is a great book.”


On May 21, David R. Godine publishes Genius of Common Sense, the first book to introduce young people (ages 10 to 100) to author and activist Jane Jacobs. Her now classic 1961 book helped people value their cities, called for an end to the wrecking ball of “urban renewal,” and ultimately changed the world. In words and pictures, Genius of Common Sense follows Jacobs from her childhood in Scranton, Pennsylvania, through her groundbreaking work, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and her involvement in battles to save the very New York City neighborhoods she wrote about. Her influence is felt around the globe from Canada to the UK to Japan.
  		 

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