I have really enjoyed this Jane’s Walks in the past and plan on participating in more of these fun exploratory walks of the City this weekend.
Jane’s Walk is an organization based in Toronto that organizes walking tours of the City to explore an insider’s take on how neighbourhoods work, socialize and live. From their website: “Jane Jacobs was an urbanist and activist whose writings championed a fresh, community-based approach to city building. She had no formal training as a planner, and yet her 1961 treatise, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, introduced ground-breaking ideas about how cities function, evolve and fail that now seem like common sense to generations of architects, planners, politicians and activists… Jacobs saw cities as ecosystems that had their own logic and dynamism which would change over time according to how they were used. These walking explorations were organized in her honour to explore the city’s hidden gems and appreciate its nooks and crannies.”

People with passion of all kinds of backgrounds are leading these walks all over the Toronto on Saturday May 1st and 2nd. The walks combine exploration with personal observations, urban history and local lore to knit people together into strong and resourceful communities.

Check out the website to find a Jane’s Walk that interests you: www.janeswalk.net.