#JaneJacobs
#OnThisDay in 1969 the battle between city planner #RobertMoses and community activist #JaneJacobs reached a climax when mayor #JohnLindsay officially cancelled the planned Lower Manhattan Expressway dead.
#CoveringHistory
July 16, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Ian, thank you so much to you and the whole @janeswalkyeg.bsky.social team. Already mulling next year’s walk! #yeg #janeswalk #JaneJacobs
May 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
there is no new world that you make without the old world
#janejacobs
April 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
On Sunday, May 24, 11 AM, I'm leading a tour for Strong Sactown & Preservation Sacramento called "Not-So-Missing-Middle Housing" in the Newton Booth and Poverty Ridge neighborhoods of Sacramento, CA, starting at Zoe Coffee & Tacos, 1829 22nd Street. #missingmiddle #urbantruth #janejacobs
LOST: Missing Middle Housing. Please help. Last seen 50+ years ago in cities everywhere. Please contact your elected officials to help find this housing. 555-456-CITY

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May 15, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Beautiful Janes Walk - #poetry walk in a #Toronto park. Grateful to Anna and poets Yang and Mui.

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#newfriends
May 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
#toronto took to the streets today in big numbers. The Toronto Marathon and a multitude of Jane’s Walks. I went to the East Chinatown tour. #urban #janejacobs
May 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
December 25, 2024 at 12:39 PM
This is what #JaneJacobs called Eyes on the Street.

Incidentally, it’s why Dallas should support a wider range of activities at West End Station. The more people use the station area—for any purpose—the safer it will feel.
Congestion Pricing is creating tremendous benefits.
Subway Ridership: ⬆️ 13%
Bus Ridership: ⬆️ 6% (⬆️ 21% weekends)
Transit Crime: 🔻36%
Fatal Car Crashes: 🔻44%
Trip Times: 🔻10-30%
February 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Je guide une promenade de Jane dans #Griffintown cette année 😊

I guide a #JaneWalk in Griffintown this year 😊

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📅 2026-05-03
🕙 10:00 - 11:30
📍Devant / In front of ÉTS - Pavillon A - 1100 Notre-Dame Ouest

#JaneJacobs #montreal #sudbest #somtl #urbanisme #urbanisme

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Griffintown - De quartier ouvrier à quartier semi-industriel à quartier résilient
Promenade dans le quartier Griffintown pour décrouvrir les transformations des 20 à 30 dernières années, avec une accélération depuis l'adoption du Plan particulier d'urbanisme (PPU) – secteur Griffin...
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April 11, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Mini holiday in #Toronto the good
I love love love the efficiency of the public transit here.
Feasting on amazing Armenian food, yapping all evening in a pub. Staggering home by subway and on foot.
This is why #JaneJacobs loved this town.
January 18, 2026 at 2:41 PM
​“... the car is not only a monstrous land-eater itself: it abets that other insatiable land-eater—endless, strung-out suburbanization.” Jane Jacobs
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#JaneJacobs, #Cyclist – ​ #CommonEdge​ #PeterLaurence
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Jane Jacobs, Cyclist
We should have known the famed urbanist loved the bike.
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May 28, 2024 at 8:59 PM
The 2024 Jane’s Walk Festival Weekend is this May 3, 4, 5-online and everywhere! Read up on #JaneJacobs herself, the great urban thinker and activist, in my #picturebook WALKING IN THE CITY WITH JANE: A STORY OF JANE JACOBS (#kidscanpress).
@12x12challenge.bsky.social #janeswalk #kidslit #bio
April 29, 2024 at 1:58 PM
What a timely (kinda eerily haha) video. Participated in one Jane’s walk today.
Thank you volunteers from @toronto.ca
#toronto #janejacobs #urbanism
Happy Jane Jacobs Day! After your Jane’s Walk, take a look at our video covering the complicated impact of urbanism’s most influential figure.
Jane Jacobs: Urbanist Hero or Patron Saint of Gentrification?
YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity!
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May 4, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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NYC wins—resoundingly. A call to make the city a community that delivers for everyone. Jane Jacobs’s street ballet triumphs. A “Nobody from Nowhere” now leads America’s largest city.
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#NYC #Mamdani #JaneJacobs #Apnapan #Politics
November 5, 2025 at 3:12 AM
“No amount of police can enforce civilization where the normal, casual enforcement of it has broken down." #JaneJacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Ch 2 The uses of city sidewalks: safety.
April 4, 2024 at 6:37 PM
#JaneJacobs Would Reject NYC’s Proposed “City of Yes” –

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Jane Jacobs Would Reject NYC’s Proposed “City of Yes”
YIMBYS get a lot wrong about the legendary citizen planner.
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July 27, 2024 at 9:54 PM
"New ideas must use old buildings," wrote #JaneJacobs in The Death and Life of Great American Cities archive.org/details/deat....
I say, "New ideas need cheap buildings", b/c so she meant, but cheap need not be old, may be eg popup, #InterimUse, socialized; perhaps, virtual
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March 8, 2026 at 10:53 PM
In the city people can experience "the unique urban pleasure of being alone together: part of a crowd but doing their own thing." I call it "private in public" and value it very much.

From #JaneJacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities —
November 26, 2024 at 10:05 PM
Last month, I got to lead a #JanesWalk in downtown #Milwaukee! #JaneJacobs was an #activist, an #urbanist, and she believed that cities are for people and should be built with people in mind. To that end, Jane's Walks are citizen-led walks, to connect people with one another and with their city!
July 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Toward People-Centered Cities: Civic Engagement and the Legacy of #JaneJacobs

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Toward People-Centered Cities: Civic Engagement and the Legacy of Jane Jacobs
YouTube video by Canadian Urban Institute
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May 2, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Human progress is based on intercity trade and expanded production capability. US cities died last century. Corporate ownership and taxes paying for infrastructure support the existing system that can only collapse. There is no way to vote out of this predicament. Find joy where you can. #JaneJacobs
December 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
#Barrierefreiheit
Beim Jane’s Walk 2025 in #Köln erkundeten 50 Menschen das Belgische Viertel und die Ehrenstraße – mit dem Blick für eine Stadt, die wirklich für alle da ist. Perspektivwechsel, Teilhabe, offene Augen.
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#janeswalk #janejacobs #barrierefreiheit… | Harald Schuster
Jane’s Walk Köln 2025 – Barrierefreiheit gemeinsam erkundet Am Sonntag, den 4. Mai 2025, haben sich rund 50 Menschen aufgemacht, um im Rahmen des internationalen Jane’s Walks die Ehrenstraße und das ...
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May 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
There’s nothing childish about designing places to create community.

So, why are we actively putting children at risk?

Find out in this week’s Sketch…

#carspreading #motonormativity #placemaking #SUV #roadsafety #janejacobs #walking #amirite #jangehl
More Carspreading! More Motonormativity! And… Cookie Monster?
Or, why our new town driveways are at risk of turning into a staging area for the Texas Rangers
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February 11, 2026 at 1:55 PM
"She legitimized opposition to overdevelopment and the destruction of neighborhoods."

#JaneJacobs
1916-2006
Born on this day

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Jane Jacobs, activist who saved Village, is dead at 89 | amNewYork
Jane Jacobs, a writer whose ideas transformed the principles of urban planning 45 years ago and a Village resident who led the fight to save an imperiled
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May 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM