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Media Clippings (2011)

Jane’s Walk: backyard chickens and changes in Regent Park
Urban literacy series gives a glimpse of big and small ways Torontonians are making the city more livable. There’s no bigger change happening in Toronto right now than the sweeping redevelopment of Regent Park, so it’s no surprise the Regent Park Revitalized tour was one of the most popular Jane’s Walks this year.
Now Magazine May 9, 2011

Jane’s Walks an urban trip down memory lane
Weekend weather and shoe leather permitting, the third edition of Jane’s Walks will have an expected 1,000 pedestrians trooping off on 25 Saturday and Sunday tours of 15 Montreal neighbourhoods.
The Montreal Gazette May 6, 2011

Walking for the love of city
Jodie McKague might seem an odd host for a Jane Jacobs-style walking tour celebrating 104th Street downtown, given that she doesn’t like Edmonton all that much. ‘I’m not a huge fan of the city,’ says the Calgary native, who moved here eight years ago. ‘I don’t feel any sort of connection to it. I’ve done a lot of complaining and I feel there’s a lot wrong with it.’ It was on one of these complaining rants at a south-side wine bar that a stranger called her out, she says. ‘He said, ‘You know, you can actually make a difference in this city. Why don’t you stop complaining and focus on doing something positive?’
Edmonton Journal May 7, 2011

Jane’s Walk a hit with ‘Peggers
Hundreds of Winnipeggers hit the streets this weekend to get a little more in touch with their surroundings. It was all part of the fourth annual two-day Jane’s Walk event with guides taking participants on 17 different free strolls through various parts of the city with themes including city planning, artwork and murals, history, urban wildlife, rapid transit and active transportation.
Winnipeg Sun May 8, 2011

Jane’s Walks marks fourth year of getting to know the neighbourhood: Weekend festival features 45 free walking tours
In her famous book, The Death and Life of American Cities, Jane Jacobs urged citydwellers to get to know the places where they live, work and play. “While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see. “Inspired by Jacobs, the fourth annual Jane’s Walk Ottawa festival is this Saturday and Sunday. The event features 45 free walking tours of Ottawa neighbourhoods and spaces.
Ottawa Citizen May 6, 2011

Jane’s Walk recalls G20 violence in Toronto
Jane’s Walks in Toronto usually offer people a chance to explore historic buildings, appreciate neighbourhood art and debate keeping chickens in the backyard. But this year, one walk will show residents and tourists where protesters threw bricks through windows, where police cars were torched and where the cops finally released the tear gas.
Toronto Star May 6, 2011

Jane’s Walk: Get to know your city
We can drive through a neighbourhood and get a sense of it, the size of the houses or the parks, for example. But we’ll miss much of what makes it both special and frustrating to those who call it home. Maybe it’s the joy of a well-lit park where kids play ball in the evening or the challenge of getting to the grocery store across a set of railroad tracks. The late urban thinker Jane Jacobs rightly argued that to really get to know a city, one needs to walk.
Toronto Star May 6, 2011

Walk This Way
Each May, thousands of people around the globe celebrate the birthday of grassroots urbanist Jane Jacobs by doing something she often did: they go for a walk with their neighbours. The volunteer-led community strolls take place under the banner of Toronto-based organization Jane’s Walk, and are free and open to the public.
Canadian Architect May, 2011

Media Clippings (2010)

A secondary suburb gets its moment of fame
Since there can only be one Don Mills, how does one tell the stories of the places that came fast on its heels? Places that, despite having a rich narrative of their own, felt the warmth of the media spotlight only briefly as they were being constructed and were celebrated afterward only by those who lived there? It is in these places – places with a hidden history – that Jane’s Walk shines brightest.
Globe and Mail April 29, 2010

Walking the talk for rapid transit
Shoes and boots were walking on Saturday where bus tires soon will roll. About two dozen Winnipeggers learned about the first leg of the city’s rapid-transit corridor by walking along the route during the annual Jane’s Walk.
Winnipeg Free Press May 2, 2010

Jane’s Walk: The changing face of a city
That was the Rexdale Rai came to know growing up here in the 1980s. Now he’s come to a Jane’s Walk of the area, to see how much it’s changed in the interim.
Toronto Star May 2, 2010

In Jacobs’ footsteps
Fifty years ago, Jacobs wrote: ‘No one can find what will work for our cities ... by looking at suburban garden cities, manipulating scale models, or inventing dream cities. You’ve got to get out and walk.’ And while Jane’s Walk is an annual event, getting to know our city by walking its neighborhoods with an eye on what works and what needs fixing ought not to be.
Toronto Star May 1, 2010

Jane’s Walk: See your city as an urban studies classroom, in Ottawa and elsewhere
A growing movement of city dwellers shares Wolf’s philosophy. Inspired by urban activist Jane Jacobs, they organized 27 meandering Jane’s Walks in Toronto in May 2007 — the first anniversary of Jacobs’s death — and 424 walks in 68 cities in nine countries last May.
Canadian Geographic Gateway blog September 20, 2010

Media Clippings (2009)

Jane’s Walks Celebrate What Makes City Great
On a beautiful spring Saturday, 24 Calgarians strolled along the Elbow River - and all the way back to 1923 - to what was then a charming green bathhouse.
Calgary Herald May 3, 2009

Discovering a City, One Streetscape at a Time
The words are carved into the concrete in the middle of the alley, a tumultuous rain filling their letters with water, one spilling into the next. A Lake… A Lane… A Line… A Lone…
The Toronto Star May 2, 2009

Toronto on Foot: Day 5. Who Knew? Places to Loiter in Thornhill
Cheeky Jane’s Walk goes off the beaten path. Most of the city’s Jane’s Walks take place downtown, the point being to let dense, urban environments close around you in all of their rich, historical glory - elements appreciated by the famed urbanist Jane Jacobs.
Toronto Star May 1, 2009

Take a Tour of Your Hidden Neighbourhood
You’re in it every day, but do you really know your own community? This weekend’s Jane Jacobs walks may be an eye opener.
Globe and Mail April 30, 2009