May
29
2:00 PM14:00
USA

Charlotte, NC: Sunday Slow Rider’s Bike Tour

Join us for a special edition of the Sunday Slow Ride with bike leaders Pamela Murray and Katie Zager, as the group explores the Blue Line and the Blue Line Extension. We will ride 10-15 miles at an easy pace with several stops to talk about the development that has occurred along the light rail corridor. Participants must bring their own bike and helmet.

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May
28
1:00 PM13:00
USA

Charlotte, NC: Retro Uptown Charlotte Walk

Walk with Retro Charlotte blogger and Charlotte Observer librarian Maria David, heading west on West Trade Street and return to the starting point. Old photos from the 1920s-1930s will compare then and now at sites such as the federal courthouse, now-demolished hotels, bus stations, with a few memories of the seedier side of the city.

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Exploring women´s jobs at Donostia-San Sebastian
May
28
10:30 AM10:30

Exploring women´s jobs at Donostia-San Sebastian

  • TABAKALERA Puerta Principal Plaza las Cigarreras (map)
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We walk around some places in Donostia-San Sebastian to know some jobs that women used to do more often in the 50 in this city. We will talk to cigar, dress and fishing net makers and women involved in the local market. This walk will last three hours and we will have the opportunity of knowing the city and its history through women's voices.

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May
21
10:00 AM10:00
USA

Charlotte, NC: A Walk on the West Side: Irwin Creek Greenway at Arbor Glen, Clanton Park and Revolution Park

Join Revolution Park community leader John Howard for a walking tour highlighting 3 west side neighborhoods and the contiguous system of public spaces linked by bike routes and a greenway that joins them. Over the years, the system was developed by different groups including Charlotte DOT and Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation. The walk will begin at Arbor Glen Recreation Center and end at Revolution Park Sports Academy. It will highlight community landmarks such as a community garden, influential community members, and discuss how the original community was developed from the 1920s through the 1960s.

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May
21
10:00 AM10:00
USA

Charlotte, NC: The Transformation of Place: University City and Transit-Oriented Development

As the opening of the LYNX Blue Line Extension (BLE) approaches, University City will be shaped by the new development along the BLE. Join us as we walk from Boardwalk Billy's, in the Shoppes at University Place, and highlight BLE improvements, strategies to modernize the suburban shopping centers adjacent to the J.W. Clay Station and discuss how UNC Charlotte will become more connected to surrounding shops, restaurants and offices.

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May
18
4:00 PM16:00
USA

Charlotte, NC: Munching Tour No. 2 in East Charlotte

  • 3113 North Sharon Amity Road Charlotte, NC, 28205 United States (map)
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Visit a Nepali grocery, enjoy an Ethiopian coffee ceremony, eat a Palestinian feast and finish with Syrian pastries—All in a single east Charlotte spot. Hosted by Charlotte Observer “Food From Home” columnist Tom Hanchett. This walk is limited to 15 attendees. An RSVP to Claire Apaliski (capalisk@uncc.edu) is required to reserve your spot.  Due to its popularity, this walk is full.

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Saint Paul, Minnesota: The Inclusive City: Urban Design through an Accessiblity Lens
May
15
10:30 AM10:30
USA

Saint Paul, Minnesota: The Inclusive City: Urban Design through an Accessiblity Lens

Date & Time:  May 15th, 10:30-12:00pm

Event Start/End: Rice Park, 5th and Market Street, St Paul, MN 55102 USA

Hosts: Kjensmo Walker, District Councils Collaborative


Contact Info: carol@dcc-stpaul-mpls.org  (651) 249-6877
 

Theme: Walking, Transit

Accessibility: Wheelchairs, Bicycles, Seniors, Children, Other: People with Disabilities

Registration: 15 People Cap. RSVP: carol_swenson@msn.com

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May
15
8:30 AM08:30
USA

Charlotte, NC: We Walk Together

  • 401 North McDowell Street Charlotte, NC, 28204 United States (map)
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We Walk Together, a monthly program in association with Mecklenburg Ministries, gathers diverse folks who walk and chat to learn about each other and their city. Join us at Little Rock AME Zion Church in Center City for 2.28 mile roundtrip walk to St. Paul Baptist, 1401 Allen Street in the Belmont neighborhood.

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May
14
11:00 AM11:00
USA

Charlotte, NC: Charlotte Neighborhood Walking Tour of Elizabeth

Join neighborhood leader Nancy Albert and others for a walking tour of the historic Elizabeth neighborhood. Elizabeth is Charlotte’s second streetcar suburb and is the location of the city’s first public park. Many residents who have made lasting impressions on the city have called Elizabeth home.

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May
14
10:00 AM10:00
USA

Charlotte, NC: South End/ Dilworth Bike Tour

  • Pike’s Old Fashioned Soda Shop (map)
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Join us for a slow paced ride through the South End and Dilworth neighborhoods as we stop to discuss historic homes and structures listed by the Charlotte Historic Landmarks Commission as Designated Historic properties. The ride will include several brief stops and highlights include the 1895 Park Manufacturing Co. building, the 1901 Villalonga-Alexander House, the 1897 Gautier-Gilchrist House, where we will hear from the owners about the long-time ghost residents and efforts to exorcise, and the 1927 Randolph Scott House. Participants are invited to continue the conversations at Pike’s Old Fashioned Soda Shop following the ride.

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(Re)Developing Phoenix
May
11
6:30 PM18:30
USA

(Re)Developing Phoenix

  • 116 West Roosevelt Street Phoenix, AZ, 85003 United States (map)
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In celebration of Jane's Walk "Month," we'll take a walk through downtown Phoenix highlighting the new and old residential areas that make up our city. The walk will take a path through the Roosevelt Row Arts District, an area currently booming with new residential projects, as well as walking past some of the first residential spaces of the area.
 

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May
8
3:00 PM15:00
USA

Charlotte, North Carolina: The Stories of Hebrew Cemetery

  • 1801 Statesville Avenue Charlotte, NC, 28206 United States (map)
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Enjoy a walk with Brian Yesowitch offering up stories of notable Charlotteans who rest in Hebrew Cemetery. The cemetery dates back to 1867. You’ll hear about best-selling author and civil rights activist Harry Golden, discover civic leaders and learn about civil war soldier Corp. Louis Leon, author of Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier, who is buried here.

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May
8
2:00 PM14:00
USA

Charlotte, NC: The Good the Bad and the Ugly: Urban Design in Charlotte's South End

Join David Walters, a professor in urban design, for a walk around Charlotte’s South End neighborhood. This six-block walk demonstrates what's good and bad about the new urban development that is transforming many of Charlotte's close-in neighborhoods, and answers some questions about how and why this happens and how the quality of redevelopment can be improved. The walk will begin at the Common Market courtyard off the north end of Camden Road (or its former site if it's been demolished before the date of the walk). Walk south on Camden and the Rail Trail as far as the Aston apartments. The walk ends on the terrace of Big Ben pub in Atherton Mill.

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May
8
1:00 PM13:00
USA

Charlotte, NC: Walking Tour of Hebrew Cemetery and Brightwalk

  • 1801 Statesville Avenue Charlotte, NC, 28206 United States (map)
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One of Charlotte’s oldest, most fascinating burial grounds and one of its newest, most exciting in-city neighborhoods are right next to each other on Statesville Ave. Brian Yesowitch of Temple Beth El will co-lead the walk with Tom Hanchett of Levine Museum Museum of the New South. This walk is being held in partnership with the We Walk Together initiative of Mecklenburg Ministries.

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May
8
1:00 PM13:00

Vancouver, BC, Canada: Our Changing Chinatown

  • 288 East Hastings Street Vancouver, BC V6A 1P1 Canada (map)
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Walk with the Chinatown Youth Coalition and bear witness to development pressures threatening a way of life that has defined and protected the community’s low-income Chinese residents and businesses for generations. Hear community responses within the contexts of social justice and the right to remain, food security and community organizing. How can the needs of economic development also respect and serve the needs of a living community and culture of a National Historic Site and one of Vancouver’s founding neighbourhoods?

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Exploring the Pallava Port City - Mamallapuram
May
8
7:00 AM07:00

Exploring the Pallava Port City - Mamallapuram

Mamallapuram - The 7th century it was a port city of South Indian dynasty of the Pallavas. It has a group of sanctuaries, which was carved out of rock along the Coromandel coast in the 7th and 8th centuries : rathas (temples in the form of chariots), mandapas (cave sanctuaries), giant open-air rock reliefs such as the famous Descent of the Ganges, and the Shore Temple, with thousands of sculptures to the glory of Shiva. The Group of Monuments at Mamallapuram has been classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Florianópolis, SC, Brazil: 7ª Caminhada Jane Jacobs Floripa
May
7
3:30 PM15:30

Florianópolis, SC, Brazil: 7ª Caminhada Jane Jacobs Floripa

  • Praça Getúlio Vargas, no, Florianópolis, SC 88070 Brazil (map)
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Jane Jacobs completaria 100 anos dia 4 de maio e vamos celebrar neste sábado com mais uma atividade da Caminhada Jane Jacobs Floripa! Desta vez vamos explorar o potencial lúdico da Praça dos Bombeiros, mais precisamente o recém reformado Parquinho da Dona Tilinha, provavelmente o mais antigo parquinho de Floripa e que também está de aniversário (50 anos). Vamos trazer filhos e sobrinhos pra brincar no parquinho, incentivando a relação das crianças com a cidade (Jane escreveu um capítulo dedicado ao tema em seu livro Vida e Morte das Grandes Cidades Americanas). Também vamos aproveitar para refletir sobre o interesse público e a privatização da gestão e reforma dos espaços públicos por construtoras. Não faremos um percurso caminhando, vamos ocupar um pedacinho da praça por umas horas para conversar, debater, brincar, fazer picnic. Estão todos convidados!

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Buenos Aires, Argentina: Caminata Jane Jacobs en Buenos Aires
May
7
3:00 PM15:00

Buenos Aires, Argentina: Caminata Jane Jacobs en Buenos Aires

SE VIENE LA CAMINATA JANE JACOBS!!! Como todos los años, en el 1º finde de mayo, se organizan alrededor del mundo las caminatas de Jane Jacobs en el fin de semana de su cumpleaños, y obvio que Buenos Aires no va a quedar afuera! Este seria nuestro 3º año organizandola, pero lo que lo hace REALMENTE especial, es que este año Jane cumpliría 100 años!! Había que conmemorar su cumpleaños y su legado con una fiesta urbana! Este año la caminata se organiza en conjunto con los genios de Un árbol para mi vereda con su proyecto Juntos somos un BOSQUE (Plantación Colectiva). Vamos a recorrer el legado de Jane a traves de nuestra percepción de la ciudad y después vamos a hacer una plantación colectiva para dejar nuestro propio legado en la ciudad. La caminata para repensar la ciudad y la plantación para actuar en ella. 7 de mayo, 15hs, Polo Cientifico Tecnologico (Godoy Cruz 2320, entre Paraguay y Soler)

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Buenos Aires, Argentina: Caminata Jane Jacobs 100 años
May
7
3:00 PM15:00

Buenos Aires, Argentina: Caminata Jane Jacobs 100 años

SE VIENE LA CAMINATA JANE JACOBS!!!

Como todos los años, en el 1º fin de semana de mayo, se organizan alrededor del mundo las caminatas de Jane Jacobs en el fin de semana de su cumpleaños, y obvio que Buenos Aires no va a quedar afuera!

Este seria nuestro 3º año organizandola, pero lo que lo hace REALMENTE especial, es que este año Jane cumpliría 100 años!!
Hay que conmemorar su cumpleaños y su legado con una fiesta urbana!

Este año la caminata se organiza en conjunto con los genios de Un árbol para mi vereda con su proyecto Juntos somos un BOSQUE (Plantación Colectiva). Vamos a recorrer el legado de Jane a traves de nuestra percepción de la ciudad y despues vamos a hacer una siembra colectiva para dejar nuestro propio legado en la ciudad.

La caminata para repensar la ciudad y la plantación para actuar en ella.

7 de mayo, 15hs, Polo Cientifico Tecnologico (Godoy Cruz 2320, entre Paraguay y Soler)

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May
7
2:30 PM14:30

Rome, Italy: Greening San Lorenzo neighbourhood

  • Piazza S. Lorenzo Roma, Lazio, 00185 Italy (map)
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The Sapienza University students of Urban planning II course (Faculty of Engineering) will expose to the inhabitants, associations, politicians how to do it during the walk. Each stop is where a pocket park, or a residential street, or a walking-cycling path, a green parking area can take place. The students will help people to imagine a new shape of the area through the illustration of their design propositions.

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May
7
2:00 PM14:00

Orillia, ON, Canada: Orillia's 5th Annual Jane Jacobs Walk

Walk-ability is one of the foundational principles that underlies Jane's ideas about the human habitat. But what does this mean if you use such places with a wheel chair?  We will explore the downtown looking for those elements of good design that assist those who navigate the built environment with wheels.

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Muskegon, Michigan: Buster Keaton and the Muskegon Actors' Colony
May
7
1:00 PM13:00
USA

Muskegon, Michigan: Buster Keaton and the Muskegon Actors' Colony

  • 1875 Waterworks Muskegon, Michigan 49441 USA (map)
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As a teen, silent film comedian Buster Keaton spent the summers of his youth enjoying life along the shorelines of Lake Michigan and Muskegon Lake in and Actors' Colony established by his father, Joe, and his vaudevillian friends. The walk is a stroll past the cottages of the colony, including the site of the Keaton cottage Jingle's Jungle as well as the baseball diamond where Buster learned the game.

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May
7
1:00 PM13:00
USA

Charlotte, NC: Walking Tour of Johnson C. Smith University and nearby neighborhood

Join us for a walking tour of Johnson C. Smith University and the nearby vicinity, with neighborhood resident Ruth Smith McDonald, artist Jamil Steel, and historian Tom Hanchett of Levine Museum of the New South. The walk will view the history mural Jamil Steel helped create. The walk is being held in partnership with the We Walk Together initiative of Mecklenburg Ministries.

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