2016 Walks

On Saturday, May 7, Big Car Collaborative and Garfield Park Neighbors Association will partner for their fourth annual Jane Jacobs Walk.

We will meet up at the inaugural Garfield Park Farmers Market at 12 pm, then head out for our walk around 12:30 pm. 

There will be one route (1.6 miles) that will explore the Shelby Street Commercial Corridor and the east side of the Garfield Park neighborhood. 

Please bring your family, friends and neighbors. All ages are welcome!

In honor of Jane Jacobs, please join us for a FREE walking tour of Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard highlighting the revitalization efforts of this historic Central City corridor. We will have a walking discussion about the evolution of the corridor from the influx of immigrants to the Civil Rights movement to Hurricane Katrina and beyond. The event will highlight recent revitalization successes and how they respect the rich history which has molded this cultural corridor. The walk will take place on Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard, between Erato St. and Philip St.

The bike tour starts at City Park. On safe biking routes, cyclists start by riding along scenic Bayou St. John to the Levee Exhibit Hall and Garden at the east breach of the London Avenue Canal. The next site is a pump station and then a ride along scenic Lake Pontchartrain to the 17th Street Canal breach in the Lakeview neighborhood. Cyclists can view the breach sites and also the neighborhoods affected by the failure of levees designed and built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Finally, everyone will bike back through City Park. The bike tour is 12 miles. You must bring your own bike. The Levee Breach Bike Tour is a healthy way to learn more about the worst civil engineering disaster in the history of the United States.

As a teen, silent film comedian Buster Keaton spent the summers of his youth enjoying life along the shorelines of Lake Michigan and Muskegon Lake in an Actors' Colony established by his father, Joe, and his vaudevillian friends. The walk is a stroll past the cottages of the colony, including the site of the Keaton cottage Jingle's Jungle as well as the baseball diamond where Buster learned the game.

JOIN CNU NYC and The 555 for a Jane Jacobs Centennial Pub Crawl on May 4th, the 100th anniversary of Jane Jacobs’ birthday. We will meet at 7 PM under the arch in Washington Square, and finish by 11 (?) at the White Horse Tavern, a few doors down from Jacobs’ house at 555 Hudson Street. During the walk we will look at the architecture, urbanism, and bars of Greenwich Village—Ground Zero for The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Please contact us at info@cnu.nyc if you have ideas for stops along the way or would like to help lead the tour. A Mystery Guest and Tour Leader will be introduced at the tour.

Join the Seven Canyons Trust and Jane Jacobs Walk for a walking conversation to explore the Three Creeks Confluence, an effort to uncover 200 feet of the combined confluence of Red Butte, Emigration, and Parley’s Creeks in Salt Lake City.

1 in 3 women in Utah will or have experienced sexual assault. The amount of women in transition through homelessness has almost tripled. As women, we all have to experience the urban design of our city streets. How does the design of our streets make them less safe for women without an address? How does it affect women with an address? How can we all make walking safer for women in Salt Lake City ? This is a walk designed to shed light on women experiencing homelessness and overall sexual violence on our city’s streets. It’s time to listen.

Creative Convergence is holding two simultaneous tours that you can choose from.

We have all heard of air and water pollution, but did you know that there is such a thing as ‘light pollution’? Join us as we learn about Salt Lake City’s light pollution, the efforts being made to protect our dark skies, and what you can do to help! 

The Beck Street area of Salt Lake City has been largely neglected in the cultural imagination of Utahns since the construction of I-15, which simultaneously made Beck, part of the old Highway 89, obsolete and improved distribution capacity for the industries encroaching on the area. Thousands pass Beck on the interstate every day, largely unaware of the crucial role the area played, and continues to play, in the religious, recreational, industrial, and environmental history of the city. This was not always the case. An enormous hot springs complex once attracted visitors from all over the state and the nation, and a warm water lake once boasted sprawling resorts, yachting and year-round recreation where refineries and freeway now lie. During the heyday of Highway 89 alive with mom and pop diners and motels. However, it also was, and still is in many respects, a place for outsiders and itinerants. It is a place of rich and diverse history, if you know where to look. Join us for an exploration of hot springs and railyards, Swedetown and Superfund sites, baptism and perhaps a little blood atonement, for good measure. After the tour, attendees are welcome to gather at The Garage on Beck for some comfort food and a frosty beverage or two and talk about the area. This “walk” covers a fair amount of ground, so please bring a bicycle.

The walk will engage children as active members of their community.as they learn and discover through their natural environment. All Children K-12 are welcome to attend. The more “eyes on the street the better!” Parents also will enjoy as they watch their children engage and learn about the built environment and place making. The sidewalk is also a great place to make friendships. Please join us!

We spend more time with screens than people. We will be waking around and enjoy nature in the park. The nature walk from the Urban Ecology Club is about reconnecting with nature and seeing the world from one's own personal lens. Our goal is to have teens and kids connect with their environment through observation. We hope that teens realize that there are many creative forms of observation, and in order to do that we must disconnect with electronic devices. Most peers our age,do not pay attention to nature and can miss out on seeing all the good things that there is in the world. Come join us in Sugar House park, phone-less!

See you there!

Asma, Hibba, and Fatima

We will be walking around our neighborhood in Holladay and trying to decipher how walkable it is. 

Downtown Holladay has developed over the years with new shops, restaurants and businesses. It is a close-knit neighborhood that encourages people to walk instead of drive. We would like to encourage our peers to continue this tradition, while also checking out the walkability of the neighborhood. We will also observe and discuss other characteristics of the neighborhood while walking and how we can personally contribute to creating a livable, healthy, and sustainable city. Come join us for frozen yogurt afterwards!

We look forward to seeing you there!

Leena, Raeya, and Lhyba

Join us as we discuss making walking safer for women without an address. This walk is designed to observe our city streets with regard to sexual violence towards women.

This is a great event where we simply walk around the neighborhood and discuss the things we would like to see happen in this part of our neighbrohood. A great way to get out and explore the community with your neighbors.

Bring your bikes and helmets and join us for a bike ride through campus with Mikael Colville-Andersen, urban mobility expert and one of the leading voices in global urbanism. He is an influential and much sought after keynote speaker and is the key figure in the company. He consults client cities & governments and also applies his marketing expertise on communication campaigns promoting bicycles as transport.

Students from the City in Literature class at the University of Utah will walk and talk after reading Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Instructors Mike Maloy and Mark McGrath will lead the walk

Creative Collingwood of today is quite a contrast to the tough industrial beginnings of this area. As we walk, covering just three streets, the fabric of remaining buildings will prompt some stories. We will also discover how these spaces now provide scope for an impressive range of creative initiatives. We will ask ourselves the question "What does this tell us about the community we find here today?"

Descubra os segredos do bairro de Santa Cecília neste passeio!

Mamallapuram - The 7th century it was a port city of South Indian dynasty of the Pallavas. It has a group of sanctuaries, which was carved out of rock along the Coromandel coast in the 7th and 8th centuries : rathas (temples in the form of chariots), mandapas (cave sanctuaries), giant open-air rock reliefs such as the famous Descent of the Ganges, and the Shore Temple, with thousands of sculptures to the glory of Shiva. The Group of Monuments at Mamallapuram has been classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

We walk around some places in Donostia-San Sebastian to know some jobs that women used to do more often in the 50 in this city. We will talk to cigar, dress and fishing net makers and women involved in the local market. This walk will last three hours and we will have the opportunity of knowing the city and its history through women's voices.

The pedestrian ring in Patraix and Tres Forques neighborhoods born after 5 school mobility plans have been done. This pedestrian ring connects, in 3,5Km., 11 schools, squares and parks of the two neighborhoods. Our Jane Jacobs walk consist in explore one section of this pedestrian ring. We start in the CEIP Doctor Lòpez Rosat and we finish in the Patraix Square.