About - Jane Jacobs Walk Albany

“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.”
- Jane Jacobs

This is a newsletter for Albany, New York's free, community-led walking conversations inspired by Jane Jacobs. Jane Jacobs Walks encourage people to share stories, discover unseen aspects of their communities, and use walking as a way to connect with their neighbors.

Jane Jacobs Walks are free self-organized walks and discussions led by committed neighbors sharing their knowledge about and love for places.

Join us for a Jane Jacobs Walk in Albany!

Date: May 4, 2024
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Pine Hills neighborhood

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About Jane Jacobs

Black and white photograph of Jane Jacobs standing in front of her home. Jane has a winter coat on, a short bob with bangs and is wearing her iconic black framed glasses. — Jane Jacobs outside her Toronto home in 1968. Frank Lennon/Getty Images.

Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) was a writer, urbanist and activist who championed a community-based approach to city-building. She had no formal training as a planner, and yet her 1961 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, introduced ground-breaking ideas about how cities function, evolve, and fail that have become conceptual pillars for today’s architects, planners, policymakers, activists, and other city builders.

Jacobs lived in Greenwich Village until 1968, when she moved to Toronto. In both cities, she helped derail the car-centered approach to urban planning and invigorated neighbourhood activism by helping to stop the expansion of expressways and roads.

Source: Jane’s Walk