Join Cal Poly Urbanists, SLOCO YIMBY, and Strong Towns SLO on our second annual Jane Jacobs Walk. This year's theme is historic preservation.

As pedestrians, we can naturally feel when a walking environment feels unsafe or unpleasant, but what exactly are the elements that lead us to those feelings? How do we best navigate these routes? Join us for a walking group based on the three big Cs of this walk: Curiosity, Commiseration, and Complaining. We’ll start at the Back Cove Parking lot across Preble Street from Hannaford in Portland, and end at Lincoln Park along Congress Street and Franklin Arterial. This walk will not be a tour; rather, it will be a lightly guided conversation and shared act of noticing. Trigger warning: the walk leader is also strongly and transparently anti-car-culture.

We will be looping around a section of the Shockoe neighborhood in Richmond, VA. We will see the Main Street Station, the 17th Street Market, parts of the Union Hill neighborhood, Jefferson Park, parts of the Church Hill neighborhood and returning on Main Street. We will discuss the history of Richmond's East End including highways expansions, redlining, housing infill, walkable areas and transit.