Free Fun – Jane’s Walks this Weekend
This weekend is the 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 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 scavenger hunt and a meditative walk.
You must register online and some are filled up, but don’t despair, there’s spots left from Pointe Claire to Anjou.
Some English ones: Green & Growing: Le Plateau & the Quartier des Spectacles,
– À La pointe claire – visite guidée à pied du Village de Pointe-Claire (bilingue)
– Little Burgundy yesterday and today
– History, Architecture and Taste Tour – Pointe St-Charles and Verdun (bilingual)
– Pioneers of the Picket Line: Lea Roback, Madeleine Parent, and the history of women in the labour movement
– Appreciation Walk : Au Bord de L’Eau
– Walk together with us : Fielding-Walkley 2 hours
– Discover the Lost Island of St. Raymond’s, the MUHC and St. Henri
– Benny Farm Sherbrooke Forest (A world in 6 blocks)
– Randonnée au pied des rapides (bilingue)
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