Free Fun, Go on Jane’s Walks
On the first weekend of May, there is an annual salute to Jane Jacobs, an activist, writer, and philosopher of architecture and urban planning. When doing her urban planning, the citizen’s knowledge of an area was extremely important to her in order to build human-scale cities.
S0 back in 2007, in Toronto, an event was held where Free urban walks were offered. Now over one hundred cities in the world give free Jane’s walks in May. We have dozens here in Montreal. Most are in French, but some are English and a few bilingual, everything from architecture to green spaces to a bakery tasting to a native heritage walk:
March Walkley
Benny Farm and Sherbrooke Forest, the hidden gems
Explore your Neighboorhood Westhaven
La diversite culturelle dans CDN (bilingue) :
Native Heritage Three Walk
Green and Growing
Wild city Mapping
Sustainability in Milton Parc
You must register online and some are filled up, but don’t despair, there’s spots left from Ste-Anne to St-Leonard. And sometimes there are last minute drop-outs.
http://www.ecologieurbaine.net/fr/activites-et-projets/activites/promenade-de-jane
http://www.ecologieurbaine.net/