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9/05/26 Recorregut Jane Jacobs per la Sagrera

Pl. Jardins d'Elx, dissabte, 9 de maig, a les 11:00 CEST

Un any més torna el recorregut Jane Jacobs. Una passejada col·lectiva per parlar de la vida quotidiana dels barris, les genealogies i les lluites del present.

Enguany caminarem per la Sagrera de la mà del col·lectiu feminista les Quintes i del Sindicat d'habitatge de la Sagrera, Navas i Congrés.

🟣 Us esperem dissabte 9 de maig a les 11 als Jardins d'Elx!

https://bcn.convoca.la/event/90526-recorregut-jane-jacobs-per-la-sagrera

@Fussverkehr
@VCDNord

Neue Seite der Aktiven von FUSS e.V. in #Kiel

https://1todoinst.de/fussev-kiel/

Heute hoffentlich regenfreier Jane's Walk
https://1todoinst.de/janeswalkkiel/26-hoernterritorien/

Wir entscheiden vor Ort, wenn jemand kommt, wie es aussieht. Bitte ggf. Regensachen bereit haben.

Diese Woche ist Jane's Walk Wochenende weltweit. Aber man kann auch jeden Tag laufen!

#FUSSev #Walkability #JanesWalk #JaneJacobs #NewUrbanism #Spaziergang #Spaziergänge

10 Jahre Jane's Walks in Kiel. Am 9. Mai 2016 habe ich den ersten durchgeführt. Mensch, 10 Jahre

Bericht zu erstem #JanesWalk in #Kiel – KielKontrovers

https://kielkontrovers.com/archiv/2016-bericht-zu-erstem-janeswalk-in-kiel/

Hoffentlich morgen (3.5.) kein doller Regen. Hätte ich doch am Samstag festgehalten? https://1todoinst.de/janeswalkkiel/26-hoernterritorien/

#Walkability #JaneJacobs

Jane's Walk Toronto Launch Event

Photos captured on Tuesday, April 28, 2026

At the STACKT market Clubhouse

28 Bathurst Street, Downtown Toronto

Chief Planner for The City of Toronto as well as the Deputy Mayor attended.

They spoke and shared their enthusiasm for this year's festival with the assembled Jane's Walk Leaders and Festival Organizers.

I video recorded them, InshAllah I can edit and post them soon-ish; because of Mic issues, the audio needs some TLC first.

The Toronto Metropolitan Area has 154 Jane's Walks this festival weekend, May 1-3, 2026.

I'm leading three different walks, one on each day at different times and different places around Toronto.

You can find my walk listings in my mastodon timeline, a few posts back.

Jane's Walks are Free. All of them!

Just show up at the Walk Start locations at the listed start times.

| #JanesWalk #JanesWalkToronto #JanesWalkTO #Toronto #TOpoli #Cities #Urbanism #JaneJacobs

The History of Canadian Muslims in Toronto Jane’s Walk - Sunday May 3 2026

This Jane’s Walk explains how 3rd, 4th, & 5th Generation Muslim Torontonians helped build our city.

Walk Stops include :

• Toronto’s FIRST Halal Butcher Shop – Roncesvalles Village
• Jami Mosque – Toronto’s Second Islamic Centre and its national significance
• The little known history of The Albanian Muslim Society of Toronto – The pivotal role of its founder, Reggie Assim, Toronto’s First Imam
• The Dundas Street Mosque – The City’s First Masjid

ALSO on this year’s Jane’s Walk :

• History of the First Synagogue in the old/former city of West Toronto

WALK LEADER : HïMY SYeD

DATE : Sunday May 3 2026

START TIME : 2:30 p.m.

WALK START LOCATION : Dundas-Roncesvalles Peace Garden (2201 Dundas Street West at Roncesvalles Avenue opposite Boustead Avenue), TORONTO

http://30Masjids.ca/30-more-janes-walk-the-history-of-canadian-muslims-in-toronto-sunday-may-3-2026/

| #JanesWalk #JanesWalkToronto #JanesWalkTO #Toronto #TOpoli #Cities #Urbanism #JaneJacobs #CanadianMuslims #TorontoHistory #Muslims #Muslim #Halal

"The 11 Books of Jane Jacobs: All-in-One Jane’s Walk" - Friday May 1 2026 - Toronto

This will be 1 Jane’s Walk covering only the most vital and timely ideas from each of Jane Jacobs’ 11 books.

If you’ve never read any of Jane’s books, or missed a few, or want a crash course or refresher in the ideas and writings of Jane Jacobs’…

OR

You are simply curious why Labyrinths and Mazes were so important to Jane’s thinking on Cities and Neighbourhoods, then this Jane’s Walk on the evening before World Labyrinth Day 2026 is for you!

DATE : Friday May 1 2026

START TIME : 5:45 p.m.

WALK LEADER : HïMY SYeD

WALK START LOCATION : Ed & Anne Mirvish Parkette, 843 Bathurst Street, TORONTO.

HïMY will be holding Orange Jane’s Walk Sign standing in the Greenspace inside the Streetcar Loop, immediately north of Bathurst Subway Station main entrance.

http://Labyrinths.ca/the-11-books-of-jane-jacobs-all-in-one-janes-walk-friday-may-1-2026/

| #JanesWalk #JanesWalkToronto #JanesWalkTO #Toronto #TOpoli #Cities #Urbanism #JaneJacobs #JaneJacobsWalk #TorontoHistory #WorldLabyrinthDay

Je guide une promenade de Jane dans #Griffintown cette année 😊 I guide a #JaneWalk in Griffintown this year 😊 👟👟 📅 2026-05-03 🕙 10:00 - 11:30 📍Devant / In front of ÉTS - Pavillon A - 1100 Notre-Dame Ouest #JaneJacobs #montreal #sudbest #somtl #urbanisme #urbanisme Pour s'inscrire/To sign up ⤵️

Griffintown - De quartier ouvr...

#JanesWalk #Hörnterritorien am 3. Mai | Thilo Pfennig - Jane's Walk Kiel

https://1todoinst.de/janeswalkkiel/26-hoernterritorien/

Schon mal als save the date. Habe gerade PM rausgeschickt. Auch da ich aktuell kontakt für FUSS e.V. in Kiel bin und manche Magazine haben 15. des Monats als Deadline.

Das könnte recht lustig werden. Leider gibt es aktuell nicht so viele Aktive vom FUSS e.V. in Kiel.

Aber "Everybody Is an Expert!"

#FussEv #Kiel #JaneJacobs #Fußverkehr #Hörn

The Failed City: I Wrote a Book About What We Bury

I have been staring at a patch of asphalt in Jersey City for thirteen years. That is not a figure of speech. I mean that in late September 2013, I watched a road crew roll fresh blacktop over 150-year-old granite cobblestones on Baldwin Avenue in the Heights, and the image has not released me since. The cobblestones were ballast stones, carried across the Atlantic Ocean in the holds of empty cargo ships and dumped on American docks because the ships needed the weight for the crossing and needed to shed it to load American exports for the return trip. Those stones were repurposed as paving. They became streets. They outlasted the ships, the shipping companies, the trade routes, the empires that commissioned them. And in 2013, a man in a road roller buried them under asphalt because, as he told me with the patience of someone explaining gravity, cobblestones eat up tires.

That exchange is where the book starts. It is also where the book’s argument starts, because what happened on Baldwin Avenue is a precise physical enactment of a larger institutional habit: the preference for covering failure rather than studying it, for smoothing the surface rather than examining what lies beneath.

The Failed City: An Autopsy of Urban Collapse is now available from David Boles Books.

What the Book Does

The book conducts autopsies. Twenty of them, organized into five taxonomies of urban failure, spanning two millennia, three continents, and one diagnostic framework that I built to answer a question nobody in the urban planning literature seemed to be asking: why do we refuse to study the cities that died with the same rigor we bring to the cities that worked?

The five taxonomies are catastrophic erasure, economic exsanguination, the utopian misfire, slow municipal death, and the never-built city. Each describes a distinct mode of urban death. Each contains case studies drawn from published sources, government records, journalistic accounts, and in several cases my own observation. I have walked the streets described in this book. I have taught at the universities that serve them. The Jersey City Heights, Camden, Newark: these are places I know from the sidewalk, not from the satellite view.

Pompeii is in the book because it is the oldest and most complete case of catastrophic erasure in the Western record. Pripyat is in the book because it is the newest, a city of 49,000 people evacuated in thirty-six hours after Chernobyl and never reoccupied. Centralia, Pennsylvania, is in the book because the coal mine fire that started beneath it in 1962 is still burning, and because the state’s decision to bury Graffiti Highway under dirt is the most literal act of concealment I have encountered in any case study. Galveston is in the book because it was the largest city in Texas in 1900 and it is not anymore, and the reason it is not anymore is that Houston built a ship channel and absorbed Galveston’s port function, which meant that the hurricane that destroyed Galveston was fatal precisely because the economic function that would have justified rebuilding had already migrated fifty miles inland.

Gary, Indiana, is in the book because U.S. Steel built it in 1906 and then left. Cairo, Illinois, is in the book because its own governing class burned it down through a sustained campaign of racial violence so thorough that the city lost ninety percent of its population. Flint is in the book because the governance structure appointed to save money ended by poisoning the water. Pittsburgh is in the book because it did not die, and the reasons it survived expose the reasons the others did not.

Laurent, South Dakota, is in the book because it is the most instructive failure I have ever encountered. A planned Deaf community where more than a hundred families signed reservation forms and zero relocated. The idea was serious, the enthusiasm was real, and the distance between signing a form and packing a truck turned out to be the distance between a vision and a life. I have worked in the Deaf community for decades through HardcoreASL.com, ASL-Opera.com, and the CUNY-SPS ASL Program, and Janna Sweenie’s characterization of Laurent as a “Deaf Utopia” captures the arc perfectly: enthusiastic communal aspiration followed by collective inaction.

Where the Argument Came From

A colleague of mine at Rutgers-Newark, years ago, made a case for the publication of failure that I have carried forward as an intellectual commitment ever since. His field was research methodology, and his contention was that failed scholarship, research rigorously conducted that ended by disproving its own thesis, deserved publication with the same velocity and seriousness as research that confirmed its hypothesis. Journals published findings. Careers advanced on discoveries. The experiments that did not find what they were looking for were filed away, and the filing-away constituted a loss of the knowledge that the failure itself contained.

He was not a person I admired, and the reasons for that are his own business. But the argument he made that day was better than the person who made it. That fact is itself a version of the thesis this book advances: useful knowledge does not confine itself to attractive sources.

The Failed City applies that principle to urban collapse. Failed cities generate data. Abandoned plans produce evidence. Collapsed communities contain information about what went wrong, when it went wrong, and what the conditions were that made the failure possible. That data is as valuable as the data generated by the cities that succeeded. Our refusal to publish it, to study it, to assemble it into a systematic account, guarantees the repetition of errors that have already been committed and documented and then filed away.

The Diagnostic

The book builds a diagnostic framework with three levels: the baseline condition (what the city had before the crisis), the triggering condition (what initiated the decline), and the cascade (the self-reinforcing cycle that follows). The framework is offered as a tool. It works for every case study in the book, and I suspect it works for cases the book does not examine. The Prairie Voice article I published alongside this book, “The Other Side of the Blacktop,” argues that the same framework applies to rural collapse with equal precision. Any rancher in western Kansas who has watched the feedlot close and the equipment dealer follow it and the diner follow that can diagram the cascade on a napkin.

Jane Jacobs and the Missing Half

Jane Jacobs wrote The Death and Life of Great American Cities in 1961. The title promises a study of death and life. The book delivers overwhelmingly on the life. It is one of the great books of the twentieth century, and I assign it in every course I teach that touches urban questions. It is also a book that does not deliver on the first word of its own title. Jacobs studied what makes cities work. She did not study what makes them die.

The Failed City is the death half of the equation, the book that Jacobs’ title promises and her text does not deliver. Jacobs remains one of the great urbanists. The gap in the literature remains real. No comparable book exists. The field has single-city studies (Sugrue on Detroit, Gillette on Camden, Gordon on St. Louis) and academic shrinking-cities literature, but no cross-taxonomic diagnostic framework for a general readership. The Failed City is, as far as I have been able to determine, the first.

The Cobblestones

The cobblestones are still there. Under the asphalt on Baldwin Avenue, under the dirt that covers Graffiti Highway in Centralia, under the grass that grows over the graded roads of California City. The evidence of failure is more durable than the surfaces we lay on top of it. Asphalt cracks. Dirt erodes. Grass thins. And the substrate will still be there, waiting to be examined by anyone willing to look at what lies beneath the blacktop.

The answer is beneath the blacktop. It has been there the whole time.

Passend zum heutigen #DigitalIndependenceDay:

Dieser etwas längere, aber dafür inhaltlich umso reichhaltigere Artikel aus #Noema zieht Parallelen von Plantagen, #Massentierhaltung und der autogerechten top-down #Stadtplanung zur monopolistischen Struktur des Internets und schlägt analog zum #Rewilding von Naturgebieten ein Rewilding des Internets vor.

"The story of German scientific forestry transmits a timeless truth: When we simplify complex systems, we destroy them, and the devastating consequences sometimes aren’t obvious until it’s too late. …

Internet infrastructure is a degraded ecosystem, but it’s also a built environment, like a city. Its unpredictability makes it generative, worthwhile and deeply human. In 1961, #JaneJacobs, an American-Canadian activist and author of “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” argued that mixed-use neighborhoods were safer, happier, more prosperous, and more livable than the sterile, highly controlling designs of urban planners like New York’s #RobertMoses."

"Technologists are great at incremental fixes, but to regenerate entire habitats, we need to learn from ecologists who take a whole-systems view. Ecologists also know how to keep going when others first ignore you and then say it’s too late, how to mobilize and work collectively, and how to build pockets of diversity and resilience that will outlast them, creating possibilities for an abundant future they can imagine but never control. We don’t need to repair the internet’s infrastructure. We need to rewild it."

https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/

#DIDay #DigitalIndependence #RewildTheInternet #systemsthinking #systemdynamics #complexsystems #Decentralisation #Interoperability #Portability #OpenSource #Resilience #Longread #Enshittification #Broligarchy #NoOligarchy #NoKings #StopTheBillionaireTakeover

#urbanism #urban #janejacobs

Jane Jacobs identified four critical ingredients for vibrant urbanism: The need for (1) density, (2) varied buildings, (3) mixed uses, and (4) short blocks. The good news is that these principles still apply. The bad news is that Southern cities are failing to fulfill all four. Let us unpack each one.

https://www.southernurbanism.org/p/jane-jacobs-4-rules-for-fostering-afa

Jane's Walk Kiel | Thilo Pfennig - Jane's Walk Kiel

https://1todoinst.de/janeswalkkiel/#2025

#JanesWalk #Kiel #JaneJacobs

I like this micro #development #planning approach that focuses on small #entrepreneurial business in a struggling small town.
The service diversity better serves the community, stimulates job growth & commerce better than a big box chain tenant.

Very #JaneJacobs like.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMjknKLe/

Am morgigen Freitag den 12. September zeigen die Stadtmacher*innen (https://stadtmachen-kiel.de/) in der Hansa48 "Citizen Jane: Battle for the City" (Doku 2016, OmU)"

https://tockify.com/hansa48/detail/916/1757700000000

mit anschließender Diskussion

#Kiel #StadtmachenKiel #JaneJacobs

🚶‍♀️ El festival Jane's Walk Palma torna els dies 9, 10 i 11 de maig per a celebrar la 10a edició.

Enguany, el programa ofereix un ventall divers de rutes gratuïtes i sense inscripció prèvia per a explorar #Palma des de perspectives històriques, socials, de planificació urbana i culturals.

Participa-hi!

➡️ https://url.pangea.org/m2505jwp

#Mallorca #Mobilitat #Vianant #EspaiPúblic #Caminar #Sostenible #JaneJacobs #JanesWalk

I spent a very happy Sunday leading a Jane’s Walk through the grounds of the Alberta legislature. My thanks to everyone who came on the tour - and most of all to Ian Hosler and the entire #janewalkyeg team for organizing this annual festival of urbanism each May. #yeg #Edmonton #JanesWalk #JaneJacobs #Alberta #ableg #abheritage

"The History of Canadian Muslims in Toronto"

I am leading this Jane's Walk on Sunday Afternoon, May 4 2025.

We start at 3:00 p.m.

We meet at the Roncesvalles Peace Garden,

Where Dundas Street Forks with Roncesvalles Avenue in West End Toronto.

This Jane’s Walk explains how 3rd, 4th, & 5th Generation Muslim Torontonians helped build our city.

| #JanesWalk #JanesWalkToronto #JanesWalkTO #Toronto #TOpoli #Cities #Urbanism #JaneJacobs #JaneJacobsWalk #CanadianMuslims #TorontoHistory #Muslims

"Brampton Downtown, a Walk into the Future"

Walk Leader Steve Collie

Shared soooo much that is happening in Downtown Brampton, Ontario,

Numerous Residential Towers that are already in progress,

Some already Built and Occupied post-Covid, barely two years old,

Labour History, Factories, Flood Plain diversions, and "Brampton Innovation District".

Ghost Stories too!

Brampton is the Future!

| #JanesWalk #JanesWalkBrampton #Brampton #PeelRegion #Cities #Urbanism #JaneJacobs #JaneJacobsWalk

"Sterling To | Morrow" Jane's Walk

This Friday evening Toronto Jane's Walk had 165 People at walk start!

Walk Leader, Sam Carter-Shamai, shared knowledge of upcoming changes to this Toronto Neighbourhood.

OR NOT.

And what should be kept, and might be lost.

Time well spent joining this first of my Toronto Jane's Walk for 2025.

I brought my JW sign, holding it up from start til end.

| #JanesWalk #JanesWalkToronto #JanesWalkTO #Toronto #TOpoli #Cities #Urbanism #JaneJacobs #JaneJacobsWalk

🔍 A writer waxes poetic about the "legendary" Jane Jacobs, whose most notable accomplishment was foiling the evil urban overlord, Robert Moses. Meanwhile, Hollywood churns out an animated flick featuring Jacobs as New York's #superheroine, because nothing screams intellectual discourse like a cartoon battle scene. 🍿🙄
https://salmagundi.skidmore.edu/articles/75-on-jane-jacobs #JaneJacobs #UrbanPlanning #HollywoodAnimation #RobertMoses #IntellectualDiscourse #HackerNews #ngated

哦上面提到的那个 #城市规划 相关的理论，我印象里是这样的
上个世纪的时候全球城市化进程飞快，然后人们很快发现城市越来越大、每天浪费在路上的时间越来越多，堵车之类的事情也越来越频繁
然后好像有个女性学者做了研究后发现，越是建设公路越会增加堵车，因为建设公路需要征地、进而把人们赶往郊区，而新增的工作往往都在城市中心区域，这就导致增加了通勤的需要。因此她提出一个理论是，合理的城市规划并不是按照功能区域集中建设（所谓职住分离），而是应该把住宅区和商业区混合在一起，以减少因为区域间通勤导致的交通流量

……但是我刚才去搜就死活搜不到这个理论的完整阐述以及那位女性学者是谁了（而且好像我记得我看的那篇报道还提到那位学者并非城市规划科班出身的来着）

编辑补充：
象友评论说 是《#美国大城市的死与生》的作者 #JaneJacobs ，她提出了 #城市多样性理论

https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/jane-jacobs-missing-chapter-robert-caro “There are two entire chapters that were cut out…One was on Jane Jacobs stopping the Lower Manhattan Expressway. And one was why the New York City Planning Commission has no power” #ThePowerBroker #JaneJacobs #urbanplanning #NYC #RobertMoses

Kids like #JaneJacobs right? #urbanism #parenting

I don’t have a nice simple intro to #janejacobs and her relatively complicated but important contributions to urban theory, except the big ideas that context, scale, and preservation are important and sudden shocking change is not always the best choice. She is often compared with the grand modernist schemes of her foil #robertmoses

The Jane Jacobs Guide to the Trump Presidency - Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-20/the-jane-jacobs-guide-to-the-trump-presidency?cmpid=BBD111024_CITYLAB&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=241110&utm_campaign=citylabdaily

#janejacobs

2024: book fifty-nine. (Audiobook twelve.) #2024books #books2024 #books #bookstodon #audiobook #janejacobs

I missed that #janejacobs got her own picture book. I think she would have found that very funny https://www.kidscanpress.com/product/walking-in-the-city-with-jane/

Wat een magistraal interessante nieuwsbrief van @dan alweer. (Thanks, Dan!)

Deze keer heeft hij het over (een boek over) de machtspolitiek van Robert Moses in het New York van de vorige eeuw.

Ik kende Moses vooral als de antagonist van stedelijk activist Jane Jacobs.

Daarom boeiend om de aanpak van Moses zelf beter te leren kennen, en via de nieuwsbrief van Dan ook een aantal interessante lessen voor ons, vandaag.

https://newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/humane-ingenuity-50-the-power-broker-at-50/ #JaneJacobs #RobertMoses #Urbanism #UrbanPlanning