Jane’s Walk is a neighbourhood walking tour that takes place in hundreds of cities each year. These are walking conversations and create space for civic dialogue, neighbourhood pride and centre stories by people not always invited to the table. Named after urban activist and writer
Jane Jacobs
Jane Isabel Jacobs (''née'' Butzner; 4 May 1916 – 25 April 2006) was an American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics. Her book ''The Death and Life of Great American Ci ...
, Jane's Walks are held annually during the first weekend in May to coincide with her birthday, May 4.
Jane's Walks are always led by volunteers and are offered for free.
The walks are led by anyone who has an interest in the neighbourhoods where they live, work, play or socialize. They are not always about architecture and heritage and offer a more personal take on the local culture, the social history and the issues, challenges and achievements of our urban environment and the people who live there.
Since its inception in 2007, in Toronto Canada,
Jane’s Walk has happened in cities across
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere, Northern and Western Hemisphere, Western hemispheres. North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South Ameri ...
and around the world. In 2014, over 40,000 people took part in Jane's Walk and since 2014 now Jane's Walk has now been then over 500 cities have taken in Jane's walk globally.
led by volunteers in 134 cities across 6 continents.
The global movement that supports this movement and it's governance of Jane's Walk and the Jane's Walk webpage is led by a fully volunteer steering committee of members around the world.
See also
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Urban exploration
Urban exploration (often shortened as UE, urbex, and sometimes known as roof and tunnel hacking) is the exploration of manmade structures, usually abandoned ruins or hidden components of the manmade environment. Photography and historical inte ...
References
External links
{{Commons category, Jane's Walk
Jane's Walk (International)Jane Jacobs Walk (formerly Jane's Walk USA)2012 Flickr photo pool(Video) Eyes on the Street - a 2011 Jane's Walk in TorontoManual for organizing urban strolls (in Slovene)Jane's Walk 2013 Calcutta, IndiaJane's Walk Colchester
Urban planning