What is a Jane's walk?

A Jane’s Walk is the street-level celebration of Jane Jacobs' legacy, author of the influential book “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” (1961), which radically challenged the car-centered approach to planning. A Jane's walk combines the simple act of walking with personal observations, urban history, and local lore as a means of knitting people together into strong and resourceful communities.

List of the Jane's walks in Montreal in 2010

In one click: all of Jane's walks 2010 in Montreal (French only)

Check out the walks' descriptions in PDF (French only)

Saturday May 1st

1.

Neighbourhood: Milton Parc
Language: Bilingual (French - English)
Title: Milton Parc sous tous ses angles
Time: 10am
Where: Centre d’écologie urbaine de Montréal, 3516 Park av.
To get there: Métro Place des arts, bus 80
Reservation: patrice@ecologieurbaine.net

2.

Neighbourhood: Mile End
Language: French
Title: Eco-sentier Lahaie-Laos
Time: 1pm
Where: Parc Lahaie corner of St-Laurent and St-Joseph
To get there: Métro Laurier, bus 51 or Métro St-Laurent, bus 55
Reservation: cd1534@gmail.com

3.

Neighbourhood: Mercier-Est
Language: French
Title: Histoire et développement du quartier Mercier-Est
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Where: Chalet de la Promenade Bellerive
To get there: Métro Honoré-Beaugrand, bus 185
No reservation necessary

4.

Neighbourhood: Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
Language: Bilingual
Title: Diagnostics des parcs du quartier
Time: 2 p.m.
Where: Place du Marché Maisonneuve
To get there: Métro Viau, bus 125
Reservation: gaudreauannie@videotron.ca

5.

Neighbourhood: Côte-des-Neiges
Language: Bilingue
Title: Arbres remarquables du quartier Côte-des-Neiges
Time: 2 p.m.
Where: Face à l’Église Côte-des-Neiges
To get there: Métro Côte-des-Neiges, west exit
Reservation: 514-344-8224

6.

Neighbourhood: Centre- Sud - Quartier Latin
Language: French
Title: Les rues ont des oreilles
Time: 3pm
Where: Tourniquets du Métro Sherbrooke
Reservation : http://www.audiotopie.org/rues

7.

Neighbourhood: Vieux-Port / Centre-ville
Language: Français
Title: Montréal Moderne- un portrait sonore (architecture)
Time: 3 p.m.
Where: In front of the Centre d’histoire de Montréal, 355, Place d’Youville, Métro Square Victoria
Length: 2h30, bring your Mp3 player
Reservation: info@montrealmoderne.net

8.

Neighbourhood: St-Henri
Language: Bilingual
Title: The trouble with Turcot: Why we need to rethink our transportation infrastructure... Now
Time: 1 p.m.
Where: Vendôme Metro
Reservation: villagedestanneries@gmail.com

Sunday May 2

1.

Neighbourhood: Parc-Extension
Language: Bilingual
Title: 100e anniversaire de Parc-Extension: passé et futur
Time: 2 p.m.
Where: Place du Métro Parc
Reservation: vracenvironnement@videotron.ca

2.

Neighbourhood: Plateau
Language: French
Title: La rue est-elle adaptée à la famille dans le secteur De Lorimier?
Time: 10 a.m.
Where: Parc De Lorimier (coin Chabot et Laurier)
To get there: Métro Laurier, bus 27, corner of St Joseph and Mentana
No reservation necessary.
Children are welcome!

3.

Neighbourhood: Centre-Sud
Language: French or Bilingual
Titre: À la découverte du quartier gai de Montréal
Time: 2 p.m.
Where: Corner of Amherst and Ste-Catherine East (in the Parc)
To get there: Métro Beaudry or Berri-UQAM
Reservation: president@coalitionjeunesse.org

4.

Neighbourhood: Cartierville
Language: Bilingual
Title: Cartierville, au fil de l’eau et du temps
Time: 2 p.m.
Where: Éco-quartier Cartierville, 5090, De Salaberry Street
To get there: Metro Henri-Bourrassa, bus 69
Reservation: johan@ecoquartier.ca

5.

Neighbourhood: Mile End
Language: English or French (2 groups will be formed)
Title: Des maisons en rangée aux mégastructures : le secteur St-Viateur Est
Hour: 1:30 p.m.
Where: in front of the St-Enfant-Jésus church, 5039 St-Dominique, between St-Joseph and Laurier
To get there: Métro Laurier, bus 51 or 55
No reservation necessary.

6.

Neighbourhood: Westmount
Language: English
Title: How citizen’s input shaped Westmount
Time: 2 p.m.
Where: Victoria Hall 4626 Sherbrooke St. West (in Westmount Park)
To get there: Métro Vendôme, bus 24
Reservation : doreenlindsay@videotron.ca

7.

Neighbourhood: Notre-Dame-de-Grace
Language: Bilingue
Title: La randonnée pédestre de NDG
Time: 1 p.m.
Where: In front of the fairtrade store ten thousand villages, 5674 Monkland Avenue.
To get there: Métro Villa Maria, bus 103 or 162
Reservation: saumiera@videotron.ca

8.

Neighbourhood: St-Henri
Language: Bilingue
Title: Village des Tanneries : dans l’ombre de l’échangeur Turcot
Time: 2 p.m.
Where: In front of Dépanneur Lee, at the corner of
Cazelais and Desnoyers
To get there: Métro Place St-Henri
Reservation: villagedestanneries@gmail.com

9.

Neighbourhood: Mile End
Language: Bilingual
Title: Walk the mile in the Mile-End
Time: 2 p.m.
Where: Coin St-Viateur and Parc (St-Viateur BAGELS)
To get there: Métro Parc, bus 80
No reservation necessary.

Jane Jacob's Biography

Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) was an urbanist and activist whose writings championed a fresh, community-based approach to understanding, organizing, designing, and building cities. She had no formal training as a planner, and yet her 1961 best-seller, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and her later books introduced ground-breaking ideas about how cities function, evolve, and succeed or fail. Jane's ideas now seem like common sense to today's architects, planners, politicians, and activists.

Jacobs saw cities as ecosystems with their own dynamics that would evolve over time according to how they were used. With a keen eye for detail, she wrote eloquently about sidewalks, parks, retail design, and self-organization. She promoted higher density, short blocks, local economies, and mixed uses. Jacobs helped derail the car-centred approach to urban planning in both New York City and Toronto, invigorating neighbourhood activism by helping stop the expansion of expressways and roads. She lived in Greenwich Village for decades, moving to Toronto in 1968 where she continued her work and writing on urbanism, economies, and social issues until her death in April 2006.

A firm believer in the importance of local residents having input about how their neighbourhoods develop, Jacobs encouraged people to familiarize themselves with the places where they live, work, and play.

[Source: Courtesy of janeswalkottawa.ca ]

For complete details, please visit the main website for North America: janeswalk.net