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Additional details about Jane’s Walk can be found at: Jane’s Walk Click on the link above to access the general Jane’s Walk Category at the Preserved Stories website. We value your questions, comments, and suggestions regarding Jane’s Walk, which is based on the legacy of Jane Jacobs. Updates regarding this year’s Jane’s Walk will be […]
The following article by Lindsay Howe concerning two Long Branch Jane’s Walks in May 2013 appears in the March / April 2013 edition of The Lakeshore Villages Community Newspaper: Exploring the History of Long Branch Jane’s Walk 2013: May 4th and 5th By: Lindsay Howe This year there will be two Long Branch dates for […]
I heard Jane Jacobs speak in Toronto around the early 1980s when I lived for a brief period on Toronto Island. In those years the Toronto Island community on Ward Island and Algonquin Island was facing eviction at the hands of the Metropolitan Toronto government whose political leadership had a strong desire to turn the […]
We’ve posted information at the Jane’s Walk website regarding two Long Branch Jane’s Walks that Mike James and Jaan Pill will lead on the first weekend of May 2013: Saturday, May 4, 2013 Sunday, May 5, 2013 The first walk, on Saturday, May 4, 2013, is from Etobicoke Creek to the Lakeshore Hospital Grounds. This […]
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 […]
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 […]
A Bailey bridge, named after a British engineer, Donald Bailey, is a temporary bridge of lattice steel designed for rapid assembly from prefabricated standard parts, used especially in military operations, according to the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition. It’s also the name by which a permanent footbridge, across the Queen Elizabeth Way at Applewood Village […]