Updates: The Global Cities at Risk website is focused upon a topic addressed in this blog post. A July 30, 2013 Atlantic Cities article notes that rising sea levels could submerge substantial parts of 1,700 U.S. Cities. An August 20, 2013 Globe and Mail article highlights the predicted effects of rising sea levels as does […]
This year’s Government and Community Services Fair will take place on Feb. 23, 2013 at Cloverdale Mall. We’ll have a Jane’s Walk table at the Fair this year. The South Long Branch Jane’s Walks that Mike James and Jaan Pill will lead this year will take place, starting at the East Parking Lot at Marie Curtis […]
February 2013 8-80 Cities newsletter can be accessed here. Here’s an excerpt from the newsletter: The link between kids who walk or bike to school and concentration By Sarah Goodyear In 1969, 50 per cent of kids in the United States walked to school every day. In 2009 that number plummeted down to 13 per […]
For the Jane’s Walks that I was involved during May 2012, I figured out the basic principles by speaking with staff at the Jane’s Walk organization. As part of the planning process, I also spoke with Denise Harris, Heritage Officer at the Etobicoke Historical Society, about the principles involved in the organizing of Heritage Walks. […]
The following text is from the Jane’s Walk website. This quick overview offers a good way to get started in thinking about what a Jane’s Walk entails: Telling a story about a place Leading a tour simply involves planning a route, thinking through the stories, places and people you want to get people thinking and talking […]
Planning is now under way for at least two Jane’s Walks in Long Branch (Toronto not New Jersey). As part of our advance publicity for the events, we arranged for a Jane’s Walk table at the Government and Community Services Fair on Feb. 23, 2013 at Cloverdale Mall. The event offered a great venue for […]
This is a photo that Barry Kemp, past president of the Long Branch Historical Society, received some time ago from a resident of Long Branch. Update (June 3, 2013): Along with the photo that I received from Barry Kemp was a photocopy of the back of a post card, on which was written the […]
A Jane’s Walk can be presented as being in the nature of a conversation. A conversation differs from a lecture, as it more explicitly involves a two-way exchange of messages. A lecture does have elements of a conversation, in the event there is a Q & A session at the end of it. There’s also an underlying […]
Below is an outline of topics for a brief talk at Centennial College, July 27, 2012 for Professor Patrick Michalak’s class. The title for the talk is from an essay with the same title from What we see: Advancing the observations of Jane Jacobs (2010), available on loan from the Toronto Public Library. I much […]