Explore the city, share stories about your community and connect with your neighbours -- join a free walking tour with Jane's Walk!

Check out the scheduled tours here:

http://janeswalk.org/canada/toronto

With new walks being added every day!

Background:

Jane Jacobs was not a city planner by training; she was just a concerned citizen who spent a lot of time observing city life around her, first in New York City, then in Toronto. From her observations, she developed some theories about what makes a city a great place to live. After she passed away in 2006, Janes Walk was founded in Toronto by a group of her friends and colleagues who wanted to honour her ideas and legacy.

In her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jacobs wrote:

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

Jacobs believed in walkable neighbourhoods, urban literacy, and cities planned for and by people. That is, for a city to work, the people who live there must be involved in decisions about how the city grows and is run. Staying informed about civic issues, learning the basic concepts of urban planning, and meeting the people who make the decisions are all good ways to do this -- and are all things you can do on Janes Walks.

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