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JANE’S WALK INTERNATIONAL SCHEDULE FOR 2011

AUSTRALIA - Canberra

We’re excited to welcome Canberra, Australia to Jane’s Walk this year! They will be holding a walk on May 8th. In addition, they will also be having a walk on May 15th as part of a world wide walking and talking event when they will be asking 250,000 people around the world to walk on that day between 2-3pm local time to share a conversation which will lead to positive change.
May 8th, 2-3pm
Meeting Place: Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Barton, Canberra, ACT
We will be preparing for our big walk on 15th May. We will walk from Bridge to Bridge around the Inner Basin of Lake Burley Griffin. In the midst of the conversation we will look at three questions: Who is my neighbour? What builds connections between us? How do we build environments of hope? We can be contacted on the Walk and Talk - City with a Soul community page or on: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

To register for the worldwide walk or the Canberra walk go to their registration site: click here.

Accessibility: The walk does cross one major road but is accessible easily from the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture. It will be along walking paths next to the lake.
Check back here soon for more information.

Neue Mitte Lehen, Salzburg, Austria

AUSTRIA - Salzburg

This year Salzburg is hosting their first walk: “Walking toward success, observing failure along the way”
Walk Leaders: Petra Hirschler, Raimund Gutmann, Stephen Goldsmith
Date/Time: Saturday, May 7th at 3:00
Meeting place: Schloss Leopoldskron

Not every project can achieve all the goals a community has planned. However success can be found along the way that can encourage further successes. Join us in Salzburg for a tour of Neue Mitte Lehen, a project which mixes public sector development of a library, housing and private sector retail and office space. Here you can see for yourself how a public/private partnership achieved many of the results the community had in mind. Then we will round the corner and see how poor political decisions, neglecting the voices of citizens, squandered resources and led to a virtual town uprising that continues today. This walk highlights successes and failures that will demonstrate a key Jacobsean principle: cities only work when they are designed with everyone.
For more information, please check their website.

BRAZIL - São Paulo

Brazil will be holding their first Jane’s Walk this year in SÅO PAULO! Check back with us soon for more information.

Jane’s Walk in Wuhan, China

CHINA - Wuhan

There were four Jane’s Walks held in WUHAN, China this year, organized by Wuhan University. Over 200 people attended the walks, making their way around the ancient city wall, on the pedestrians and in the residential area through Wuhan city. They are hoping to have walks in Shenzhen this May, so check back here soon for updates, or contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). You can also check their Mandarin language website.

ENGLAND - Colchester

This year Jane’s Walk comes to the UK for the first time - via COLCHESTER! Walks are being added all the time, but confirmed so far… a nature trail across Hilly Fields led by local butterfly and bumblebee man Ted Benton; a King Edwards quay-side walk and talk along the Colne led by Jules Pretty, author of soon-to-be-published ‘This Luminous Coast’ (March 2011); a tour of Colchester’s disused/abandoned theatres and cinemas led by local maverick, Dorian Kelly (of Illuminati), an urban trail celebrating some of the quirkier loves associated with our town centre led by Walk Colchester friends, an after-dark tour of the Castle Park’s ghosts and gory bits led by park ranger Will Jenkins! Several others are in the making, and a timetable will be in place shortly, to be updated as we go along…
Please check back soon for more details, and be sure to check out our website: Jane’s Walk Colchester

GERMANY - Berlin

BERLIN joined Jane’s Walk in 2010. In 2011 they will be leading three walks:

• Exploring the 1970s – a closer view to Berlin Wedding’s Brunnenviertel
Sunday 8.5.2011
15:00
1,5 Stunden
A walk through Berlin-Wedding’s „Brunnenviertel“ is a tour through the history of architecture and urban renewal in the period of late Post War Modernism. The urban structures of the neighbourhood and especially the architecture have been built mainly in the 1970s. What comes to mind when thinking of 1970s city quarters often is rather negative: those city quarters are often neglected, seemingly nobody likes their architecture, there are many prejudices.
But did you know, that the area had been a field of urban experimentation during the last 50 years? Would you like to take a new look on the architecture, monuments and places that have been constructed there? If you are interested and curious in exploring public spaces, green spaces, pavilions with soft edges made of ethernet and orange plastic buildings, and if you like to get to know something about the changes in politics and practices of urban renewal in Berlin, then you are very welcome to join our tour through „Brunnenviertel“.
Meeting Place: Brunnenstraße / Bernauer Straße
Tour guide: Christian Kloss from urbanophil
End Location: Vinetaplatz
Public Transit Directions: U8 or Tram M10 to „U Bernauer Straße“
Language: German

• The Power of Absence – an experiment on urban perception
Sunday 8.5.2011
11:00
1,0 Stunde
I would like to invite you on a tour through the historic city center of Berlin and to guide you to surprisingly beautiful places, squares and buildings, which have been constructed since the second half of the 20th century. Some of these places are neglected, others are openly disliked, others again aren’t even seen – let’s take a look at these sites together and explore our spontaneous feelings in an experiment on perception:
Is our perception of a place connected to the facts we know about the place? In how far does our knowledge about the history and the future of a certain neighborhood or site influence our judgment of the present situation? And most of all: what role do absent buildings and structures play when regarding and valuating space?
It does not matter, how much you know about Berlin and the urban space between Spree, Alexanderplatz, Red Town Hall and Klosterstraße: the experience might be surprising. So if you are curious to go on an experimental walk and / or if you are interested in seeing things from a new point of view, I’m looking forward to meet you in Mitte.
Meeting Place: Berliner Dom, main entrance
Tour guide: Verena Pfeiffer from urbanophil
End Location: S+U Alexanderplatz
Public Transit Directions: S Hackescher Markt; Bus 100, 200 „Lustgarten“
Language: German or English – tour very suitable also for tourists

• Die Macht der Abwesenheit – ein Experiment zur Raumwahrnehmung
Sonntag 8.5.2011
11:00
1,0 Stunde
Ich möchte Euch zu einem Spaziergang durch die historische Mitte Berlins einladen und zu überraschend schönen Stadtplätzen, Orten und Gebäuden führen, die in den letzten sechzig Jahren dort entstanden sind. Einige dieser Orte sind sehr ungepflegt, andere werden ganz offen nicht gemocht, wieder andere werden nicht einmal wahrgenommen – lasst uns gemeinsam einen neuen Blick auf diese Orte wagen und unsere spontanen Empfindungen in einem Wahrnehmungsexperiment erforschen:
Ist unsere Wahrnehmung abhängig davon, was wir über den Ort wissen? Inwiefern beeinflusst unser Wissen über den Ort, seine Geschichte oder seine Zukunft unsere Bewertung der bestehenden Situation? Und vor allem: welche Rolle spielt Abwesenheit, wenn wir Räume betrachten und bewerten?
Es ist nicht wichtig, was Ihr bereits über Berlin und seine historische Mitte wisst: die Erfahrungen können überraschen. Wenn Ihr neugierig seid und Interesse an einem experimentellen Spaziergang habt und / oder einfach gerne einen neuen Blick auf die historische Mitte werfen möchtet, freu ich mich, Euch in Mitte zu treffen.
Treffpunkt: Berliner Dom, Haupteingang
Führung von: Verena Pfeiffer, urbanophil
Ziel: S+U Alexanderplatz
ÖPNV: S Hackescher Markt; Bus 100 , 200 „Lustgarten“
Sprachen: Deutsch oder Englisch – tour very suitable also for tourists

• Do you know much about neighborhoods?
Sat. 7th of May
15:00
Do you know your city? Do you know your neighborhood? Do you know the power of coincidental paths through your everyday walks? I`ll invite you to walk in different coincidental ways. I will take you on some dèrives with different strategies: one is with a card-deck of directions (at each crossing we ask the deck for the direction); one is with a dice (we give each number from 1 till 6 a special meaning f. ex. turn left; take a public transport… and ask the dice for the next action); and the last is with a coin (yes/no, which we are asking questions like f.ex. shall we turn right or shall we take a bus?).
Why shall we walk in that way?
To stroll around opens us huge options to explore new impressions in the city. We don`t have any destinations, we move as the others move, we are in the public space, we participate at the symphony of the city. We use our senses and open our mind for new impressions how districts work, how the people live, how they speak, what they eat, how they use their area and many more. Maybe we will talk to people we meet, maybe we will visit someone`s home. everything is possible without any fixed direction and without any goal. You will see you will know much more about the city, the district and the people which live in there when you are back at home again.
We will document the walks in many different ways. Please use your imagination and your talents to draw or paint, maybe you are interested in the sound of the places we cross. Some will take photographs or collect stones and leaves. Everything is allowed and everything is interesting. But please bring your own materials.
Meetingplace is the entrance door to the “bierpinsel” (u9-schlosstraße or by bus f.ex m48 or m85)
The walk will take about 2,5 hrs, the distance depends on the interest of the group. We will have a rest.
Maybe we`ll bring some pastries for the 95th birthday of Jane Jacobs?
I try to take special care for disabled persons.
Tourguide: Karsten Michael Drohsel metastadt and urbanophil

Jane’s Walk participants exploring Bhoot Bangala, Mumbai 2009

INDIA - Mumbai

Tour Guides: Swati Sanghavi, Kapil Chavan
In 2009 Jane’s Walk went officially global with one walk in MUMBAI. Stay tuned for what’s happening in Mumbai in 2011. Check back soon for updates.

IRELAND - Dublin

DUBLIN held four Jane’s Walks in 2010. Come back to this page soon to find out what’s happening in Dublin in 2011.

ISRAEL - Tel Aviv & Yaffo

2011 Israel’s first walks will launch in hub’s on the Mediterranean Metropolitan area of TEL AVIV. The Walks will include public spaces in the White City Center of Tel Aviv, the older city of Yaffa, and walks in the gentrified southern neighborhoods of Bat Yam, Shapira, Florentin, and others.

Walking on Dizengoff St., Tel Aviv

Some of the walks already planned include:
• Yoav, an Israeli Urbanist, will lead a walk between his two apartments in the City center and explain how, by a simple spatial move, he lost a really good Greengrocery shop, but earned the best Butcher he’s met in his life. Yoav is a talented blogger who is currently writing his PhD in urban geography about pedestrians in Tel Aviv. He will have some interesting insights about walkability and Jacobs’ legacy.

Skate Park in Bat Yam

• This walk will be all about skateboarding in the ancient city, including discussions about the spatial conflict between Skaters, Bladers and Bikers created by lack of infrastructure. This cool Walk / ride will be led by Almog and Barel - two teenagers who run their own public skate park in Bat Yam in their spare time.

• Another walk will address Education Language policy for Arabic speakers. It will be held in the Older City of Yaffa, leaded by Roi, an Education PhD student and young students who lives in the neighborhood. The walk will pass through school yards and community centers and involve teachers, parents and students.

• “Walk on Border” This walk is led by Nisan, the organizer of Jane’s Walk Tel Aviv, and focuses on the Municipal Borders in the southern areas of the city. The walk is based on his research about the historical, architectural and social aspects of the urban borders here. The participants will be invited to use chalk and their mental maps to mark new boarders on the pavement.

Other Walks taking place are The Awareness for Hipsters Walk , a GLBT afternoon Walk, and others.
Keep checking back here for more details coming soon! And please email us for more information, or if you’re interested in leading your own walk in Tel Aviv: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Also, check out our facebook page.

MEXICO - Guadalajara, Jalisco

This year Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico will be holding a Jane’s Walk!

SANTA TERE LIVES
Santa Tere is a neighborhood with an incredible potential. Few places in the Greater GUADALAJARA Area still keep their diversity of trades, commerce, services and residential zones. Santa Tere has it all: density, diversity and proximity. Its gridlock allows us to walk through the borough in a milliard of ways, this way easily reaching any point by foot or by bike. But not everything is perfect here. Santa Tere presents big issues with respect to the (ab)use of its public space - or lack thereof. Be part of this walk that activists from CIUDAD PARA TODOS will guide. We’ll talk about the history of the neighborhood and its relation with the Metropolitan Guadalajara, likewise we’ll dialogue about Santa Tere’s sidewalks, its public space, its green areas, its mobility (& transportation), its architecture and about the demographic changes experienced in the last few years.
Show up, we’ll have a good time!

SANTA TERE VIVE
Santa Tere es un barrio con un potencial increible. Pocos lugares en la Gran GUADALAJARA aun conservan una diversa gama de oficios, comercios, servicios y zonas residenciales. Santa Tere lo tiene todo, densidad, diversidad y cercania. Sus calles cuadriculadas permiten caminar a traves del barrio de mil maneras, asi como llegar a cualquier punto facilmente a pie o en bicicleta. Pero no todo es color de rosa, Santa Tere presenta grandes problematicas con respecto al (ab)uso de su espacio publico - o mas bien, la falta de este. Forma parte de esta caminata que activistas de Ciudad para Todos guiaran, hablaremos de la historia del barrio y su relacion con Guadalajara; asi mismo, dialogaremos acerca de sus banquetas, su espacio publico, sus zonas verdes, su movilidad , su arquitectura y sobre los cambios demograficos que ha tenido y tendra en los proximos anos.
Ven, diviertete, aprende y ensena!
Walk co-leaders: Christian Scott Marton, Gerardo Montes de Oca and Enrique Reyes Arellano For more information, please check out their website

Photo: Edward Neering/ Kinderboerderij Westerpark, Amsterdam

THE NETHERLANDS - Amsterdam

GREEN AMSTERDAM
Tour Guide: Dea van Lierop
We will explore several examples of public “green” space and technology in and around AMSTERDAM’s gorgeous Westerpark. The focus of Jane’s Walk Amsterdam will be the integration of public “green” space and technology in the city. We will meet at a café next to Amsterdam’s beautiful Westerpark, and from there explore several “green” and “eco-friendly” spaces in the park such as the grass roof of the petting zoo, and the electric car charging station. Not only will our walk take place in the Westerpark, but we will also explore some of the both older and more recent architecture and urban areas closely located outside of the park. For more information, contact: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Time: May 7th 2011, 11:00 AM
Meeting Place: We will meet at the picnic tables outside of the “Espressofabriek” espresso-bar, which is located in the Westergasfabriek:
Westergasfabriek
Gosschalklaan 7
1014 DC Amsterdam
020 4862106

THE PHILIPPINES - Carcar, Cebu Province

Tour Guide: Jerry Martin Noel Alfafara
CARCAR in Cebu Province, the Philippines, will be leading a Jane’s Walk in conjunction with the country’s National Heritage Month. The walk will take you through Carcar’s heritage buildings and sites. Please check back here soon for further details.

RUSSIA - St. Petersburg

This year, Jane’s Walk welcomes St. Petersburg!
May 8, 2011, 2 p.m. - 5 p.m.
From metro station Chkalovskaya to metro station Gorkovskaya (Petrograd Side)

Check out our Route Map

Petersburgers are renowned for the passion they devote to strolling and exploring their beautiful, unique city, the former capital of the Russian Empire founded a little over 300 years ago by Peter the Great.
In recent years, however, the city’s newfound economic wealth has led to unrestrained “redevelopment” that threatens not only the city’s architectural heritage (nominally protected by Unesco), but also its
livability and walkability for ordinary citizens.
Automobiles now clog its thoroughfares from dawn to dusk, and the absence of parking facilities means that when they’re not jamming the streets, they’re often as not parked on sidewalks and in the city’s beloved inner courtyards. When they’re not dodging cars, Petersburg’s pedestrians have to make their way through a maze of street-level billboards, which have sprung up like mushrooms all over the city, and a myriad of building sites. Meanwhile, developers have targeted the city’s green spaces for new construction, leaving Petersburgers with even fewer places to stroll and relax. Finally, the city’s once-mighty tram network has mostly been dismantled to make room for cars.
In the spirit of the international Jane’s Walk movement, on May 8 we will be leading a walk through the city’s Petrograd Side district. Our focus will be the walkability of the route we’ve chosen, and we will be charting this factor using the “Walkability Checklist” developed by our comrades in Canada. We plan to photograph what we find and publish a short summary of our findings on the Jane’s Walk web site.

We will also be using the occasion to celebrate the recent publication of “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” in Russian. Along the route we will be reading aloud passages from the book.

The Petersburg Jane’s Walk is organized by Sunday Cafe, an informal group of activists, sociologists, urbanists, local history buffs, and flaneurs that has been conducting walks (mostly to parts of the city usually ignored by tourists and residents alike) once a week for the past two years.

For more information on the Petersburg Jane’s Walk, please contact:
Dmitry Vorobyev
e-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
telephone: +7 921 384 4106
or
Thomas Campbell
e-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
telephone: +7 906 269 7782

SLOVENIA - Ljubljana

For the first time this year, Ljubljana, Slovenia will be hosting a Jane’s Walk. Local community organizations as well as a network of experts will work together to lead 4 walks in the City of Ljubljana, which will promote the ideas of Jane Jacobs in Slovenia:
1. Tabor: Saturday, May 7th 2011, starting at 18:00. Meeting point: Park Tabor. The walk will be lead by prof. dr. Drago Kos, The walk will complement the events in Park Tabor on the same day.
A former industrial and military part of Ljubljana, now a center of alternative as well as mainstream cultural production, and an interesting mix of squatted old army barracks (since early 1990s) and some new mainly residential developments. We collaborate with a network of diverse institutions (led by Bunker), working together to brand the neighbourhood as the “Cultural Quarter” of Ljubljana.
2. Zgornja Šiška: Saturday, May 7th 2011, starting at 17:00. Meeting point: Kino Šiška. The walk will be lead by mag. Maja Simoneti and Marko Peterlin. There will be an opening of an exhibition in Kino Šiška after the end of the walk.
A mostly residential part a bit further from the city center, where public space is under strong pressure from both legal and and illegal parking and other types of car-centric thinking, while streets and squares are neglected and often difficuly to walk. We collaborate with a local cultural center.
3. Spodnja Šiška: Sunday, May 8th 2011, starting at 11:00. Meeting point: old railway station Šiška. The walk will be lead by Urška Kranjc, it will end with a refreshment drink in a local bar.
Another recently abandoned industrial area just out of the center of the city, now subject to some speculative developments. We collaborate there with an association of local residents.
4. Fužine: Sunday, May 8th 2011, starting at 11:00. Meeting point: Fužine Castle. The walk will be lead by Tadej Žaucer in Petra Očkerl. During the walk, workshops will be held for the children in the Fužine Castle. A large housing estate from late socialist times with similar problems as Zgornja Šiška. We collaborate with national architectural and design museum, which is based there.

All the itineraries are marked on the on-line map. Information in local language is available on the IPoP web page: here and here.
Jane’s Walk in Slovenia is being organized by the Institute for Spatial Policies (IPoP), an independent research and consultancy, and non-governmental non-profit organization, active in the field of spatial and urban development. They work in cooperation with a variety of experts and organizations, including local civil society groups. They are developing a network of complementary organizations in the field of spatial and urban development as well as creating conditions for a common understanding of challenges, goals and solutions, leading to sustainable spatial development. They are focused on the processes, producing space and place from the bottom up, from the part of an individual, and are emphasizing the importance of long-term thinking.
For more information check back here soon, or check out their Slovenian language website.

SPAIN - Barcelona

In BARCELONA a group of women who work on gender and planning issues in the area of Catalonia will lead a walk in Barcelona this year, analyzing the city environment from a gender perspective and from the needs of women. The walk will take place on Saturday May 7 at 5.30pm. The walk will be in the the neighborhood of Santa Caterina, in the District of Ciutat Vella, in the center of the city.
Meeting place: Mercat de Santa Caterina, Barcelona
Day: May 7, 2011
Time: 5.30 pm

For more information, please check out the col·lectiu punt 6 blog
or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) them.
Please check back here soon for more details.

SPAIN - Madrid

In MADRID, after the success of their first walk last year, down the Gran Via, the cultural association ‘falta oblicua’ are planning 6 walks (so far) for this year’s Jane’s Walk 2011!
Here are the details so far:

MAY 7th
• Itinerary nº 1: latina-lavapiés
10h30 las vistillas cornisa
11h30 la cebada mercado y solar
13h30 mercado de san fernando
• Itinerary nº 2 (link):
15h30 csoa casablanca (calle santa isabel) y calle atocha: cso malaya, hoteles, antiguos locales
16h15 plaza santa ana, puerta del sol y plaza de callao
• itinerary nº 3: malasaña
17h plaza de la luna (cines luna), mercado de los mostenses
17h30 solar de grilo
18h corredera baja

MAY 8th
• Itinerary nº 4: Cañada Real (details to come soon)
Check out their “el Paseo de Jane” blog for more information and updates, or email them: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).