Sustain the Granary
. Sustain the Granary: Exploring the Salt Lake City Granary District Join the Young Architect’s Forum (YAF) to explore the Granary District. In the spirit of Jane Jacobs, participants will stroll through this dynamic urban village, stopping to tour local highlights and hear the stories of residents, designers and business owners. The evening kicks off at 6:00pm at Artspace Commons (800 S @ 400 W), where there’ll be a display of architecture projects focused on the Granary District. From there, The Young [...]
Magoun Square, Somerville
. This walk will be leisurely stroll through the Magoun Square area focusing on its unique history, and the status of various local issues, including why some area houses are eligible for historic designation, upcoming additions to the Community Path, updates on the Maxwell Green development and its timetable, and whether the proposed Lowell Street “T” station design is a good fit for the neighborhood. Several resident community leaders will lead this walk, ending at noon, in time to enjoy [...]
Walking the U
. Walking the U The Walk will go through the University of Utah campus and surrounding neighborhoods. The idea is to observe entrances and doorways to buildings, as well observe areas that are enjoyable to walk, and those that are not. Click here to view a larger map.. Time: 1:00pm-2:30pm Date: Sunday May 6, 2012 Event Start/End: Reservoir Park, corner of South Temple, and Virginia/University Host Organization: Alex Fuller, Jane Jacobs Walk Registration: No need to sign up, just show up at the posted meeting location. [...]
The Ogden Urban Tour
. The Ogden Urban Tour This Jane Jacobs Walk event will showcase the old core of Ogden and draw attention to the importance of building more walkable communities while also protecting historic buildings. Click here to view a larger map.. Time: 3:00pm-5:00pm Date: Sunday May 6, 2012 Event Start/End: The event will begin and end at the Ogden Transit Hub. Host Organization: Sean Hansen, Jane Jacobs Walk Registration: No need to sign up, just show up at the posted meeting location. Accessibility: This event [...]
Jane’s Walk to Kid Klatch Picnic
. After walking south from Morgan Park to Jefferson Street, we will walk west to 6th Av and have an informal picnic oriented toward families with kids and other interested individuals at Bicentennial Mall State Park. Picnic is bring your own food/non-alcoholic beverages. Time: 10:30am-12:00pm Date: Saturday May 5, 2012 Event Start/End: Begins at Morgan Park (corner of 5th Av N and Hume St in North Nashville) and ends at Bicentennial Mall State Park (corner of 6th Av N and Jefferson St, [...]
Culture & Cuisine: Dishing Up the East Village
Join GVSHP staff member Dana Schulz as she takes you on a journey through the East Village, peeling back the layers of the cultural gastronomy scene that have made this neighborhood so eclectic (and delicious!) over the years. Explore how immigrant groups established restaurants to serve their own community as well as share their heritage with the uninitiated. Learn the little-known facts that make these spots famous and infamous and discover how the emerging food scene of today reflects the [...]
The BROADWAY: 1000 Steps (Bronx/Inwood)
The BROADWAY: 1000 Steps Baton – 240th Street to 190th Street: Bronx Gateway Through Inwood to Manhattan Artist and Founder of City as Living Laboratory, Mary Miss, will inaugurate the event by addressing the significance of Broadway, as Manhattan’s historic and ever-evolving corridor. Bronx-born artist, Daniel Hauben, will discuss his impressions of the borough, past and present, which serve as the subject of his acclaimed ‘landscape’ paintings, while Inwood resident and enthusiast, Don Rice, will enrich this stretch of the [...]
The BROADWAY: 1000 Steps (Harlem)
The BROADWAY: 1000 Steps Baton – 190th Street to 112th Street: Newcomers and Old Timers: Fort George, Washington Heights and Harlem Acclaimed artist, Matthew Jensen, will heighten awareness of this area’s topography and geology, addressing features of the urban landscape often unnoticed. CB9 community activist Linda Walton will help to identify landmarks of Harlem’s cultural history over time and provide projections for the neighborhood’s future. As we walk past the prolific Columbia University, environmental scientists Sabine Marx will speak about [...]
The BROADWAY: 1000 Steps (Central Park)
The BROADWAY: 1000 Steps Baton – 112th Street to 59th Street: Central Park to Columbus Circle As we walk down from 112th St., Angelica Pasqualini of Columbia University’s Center for Climate Systems research, will speak about the principle climate research underway in NYC and the myriad green innovations in the built environment that line Broadway. BROADWAY: 1000 Steps is a project by Mary Miss to turn the oldest avenue of NYC into a “green corridor” where insights into our surroundings [...]
Gentrification and the Historic New Harlem
East Harlem: Gentrification and the Historic New Harlem East Harlem is a very old neighborhood. Its tenements, public housing, and the current boom in condos now creates a new mix of people. In the past Harlem was home to Chinese, Italian, African American, Sephardic Jew, Spanish, Carribean, Mexican and Latin American residents. Now there is a smattering of persons from Mali, Burkina Faso, Egypt, India, Russia, Senegal, Gambia and Ethiopia. The area is undergoing gentrification so now East Harlem sees [...]
The BROADWAY: 1000 Steps (Midtown)
The BROADWAY: 1000 Steps Baton - 59th Street to 23rd Street: Midtown Through the Square Vin Cipolla, president of the Municipal Art Society (MAS), will guide us from Columbus Circle to Times Square—historic junctions along Broadway where MAS has played a critical role boosting the corridor’s assets. The Times Square Alliance will also be on hand to speak more specifically about Times Square’s cultural relevance and the plans in place to improve the area. Broadway Green Alliance will address its own [...]
The BROADWAY: 1000 Steps (Downtown)
The BROADWAY: 1000 Steps Baton – 23rd Street to Canal Street: The Downtown Area Max Joel, the Director of Energy Connections at alternative energy organization, Solar One, will address their bold environmental initiatives, followed by naturalist and educator, Gabriel Willow, who will turn our attention to the natural habitat of the neighborhood beginning with Madison Square Park. BROADWAY: 1000 Steps is a project by Mary Miss to turn the oldest avenue of NYC into a “green corridor” where insights into [...]
The BROADWAY: 1000 Steps (Origins)
The BROADWAY: 1000 Steps Baton – Canal Street to Bowling Green: The Origins of the City Community activist and Professor of Planning, Michael Levine, will reveal the rapidly changing demographic and environmental trends of Lower Manhattan, while chair of the CB1 Financial District Committee, Ro Shaffe, will share his deep knowledge of the area’s history that has given way to its current conditions. Wellington Chen, Director of the Chinatown Partnership, will speak about the prolific history of Chinatown area and [...]
A New Way of Seeing and Understanding NYC
This walk, beginning at the former home of Jane Jacobs, will discuss what could have happened to the area if she had not defeated Robert Moses in building a Lower Manhattan Expressway, urban density and diversity (which Jacobs was highly in favor of), and will look at the type of “sidewalk ballet” that Jacobs viewed from her window. Time: 2:00pm-4:00pm Date: Sunday May 6, 2012 Event Start: 555 Hudson Street, Manhattan Event End: Below the High Line Host: Marty Schneit, of Marty’s [...]
Walk of Catherine Slip Streetscape
Walk of Catherine Slip Streetscape Approaching the East River Blueway Join the Lower East Side Ecology Center Education Director, Dan Tainow, to learn about the improvements to the streetscape that are happening along the lower section of the East River Blueway. We will look at what has been built and discuss what could be built to improve parkland, water quality and access to the East River Blueway. Click here for more information on this walk. Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm Date: Saturday May 5, [...]
Manhattan West Public Space Icons
Take an epic three-mile walk bookended by two iconic New York public spaces: Times Square and the High Line. Along the way, we’ll highlight public plazas, safer street crossings, transit corridors and protected bike lanes—all situated in the midst of New York City’s unique architecture. We’ll stroll past the house where Jane Jacobs wrote The Death and Life of Great American Cities and end with refreshments at Gansevoort Plaza. Transportation Alternatives is working to revitalize New York City’s neighborhoods and [...]
Tottenville: Main Street U.S.A.
Lower Main Street in Tottenville became an important business center in the mid-19th c. with the revitalization of the oyster industry enhanced by the extension of the SI Railroad to Tottenville in 1860. Capt. John Totten, who lived nearby & whose house still stands, built a dock and general store along the waterfront here, and the maritime industries that supported that industry soon flourished. A century later, Main St. remained at the heart of the community’s business district, providing a [...]
Flushing, Queens: The Rocket Thrower
Flushing, Queens: The Rocket Thrower – Robert Moses, the 1964/65 World’s Fair, and Art in the Space Age The Space Age was a time of bewildering change, yet also of great optimism about the future. Conceived at a time of general consensus in 1958 and designed to celebrate and promote the U.S. entry into the Space Age, the 1964/65 Fair opened instead amidst the turbulent conflicts of the Mid-Sixties. Robert Moses’s presidency of the World’s Fair Corporation became another flash-point [...]
Woodlawn in the Bronx
Woodlawn in the Bronx: A Small Town in the Big City Explore this well defined former village of Westchester County that retains many of its small-town elements — main street, churches, schools, post office, library, railroad station, green spaces — after being absorbed into the NYC grid more than 100 years ago. We’ll talk a bit about Woodlawn’s role in a Revolutionary War skirmish, its history as one of the Bronx’s “Irishtowns”, and its connection to NYC’s 19th-century aqueduct projects. [...]
Bed-Stuy Community Food Walk
Come spend the morning with Bed-Stuy community advocates, organizers and neighbors to learn more about the bountiful food and garden resources in our community! The tour will meet at St John’s Bread and Life for a snack and tour of their food pantry and then continue west to explore Bed-Stuy’s rich architectural history and active community gardens. Date: Saturday May 5, 2012 Time: 10:00am-12:00pm Event Start: St. John’s Bread and Life – 795 Lexington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY Event End: Hattie Carthan [...]
Brownsville Brooklyn
Bordering Canarsie, East Flatbush, Crown Heights, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and East New York, Brownsville has been and remains a working class neighborhood since its founding in 1880. We will see sights such as old Loew’s Pitkin Theater on Pitkin Avenue, Brownsville’s commercial artery and the Stone Avenue Branch of the Brooklyn Public LIbrary which opened in 1914 as the Brownsville Children’s Library, the world’s first public library devoted to children. Date: Saturday May 5, 2012 Time: 10:00am-12:00pm Event Start/End: 3 Train Stop at [...]
Old Oakland District
. Old Oakland District to Governor George Pardee House The area of Oakland we will be visiting was developed in the 1860s and 1870s, shortly after the transcontinental railroad was completed and Oakland was designated the western terminus. George Pardee’s father Enoch was a doctor in the Gold Rush era. George served as California’s governor from 1903 to 1907. Family members donated the home and belongings to a foundation and it is periodically open to the public for teas and [...]
Typography Town
. From the massive Thornes awning to graffiti on the sidewalk, type surrounds us as we move through town. On this walk we will explore how the typography of our town effects our experience of it, from old painted letters on brick buildings, to font choices of new businesses, to wayfinding signs. We’ll have a casual discussion about public typography, peppered with trivia and facts about fonts we spot along the way. What makes the signage of Northampton unique? What [...]
West Side Walk – Village Visioning
. This walk is intended to give participants a new view of Hinesburg Village. Walking on the western edge of the village, we will discuss what we all see and how we envision the future of Hinesburg, especially the NW sector of the growth area. This is a kickoff event for the Village Steering Committee’s Village Visioning project. Date: Saturday May 5, 2012 Time: 1:30pm Route: The walk begins and ends at the Hinesburg Park and Ride behind Town Hall. Host Organization: Hinesburg [...]
Mesa: Connections
. Mesa: Connections Join us as we talk about walkability and transit oriented development in Mesa! We will walk both north and south of Main into the neighborhoods to make a “walking audit” of the resources we have around our station areas. Bring your brain power and a mind open to the possibilities of Mesa! When we return at the end of the walk, we will discuss, draw and write our ideas down. Time: 8:30am-10:30am Date: Sunday May 6, 2012 Event [...]
