Join City Commissioner Bryan Eastman, Gainesville is for People, and other community members for Gainesville's first "Jane's Walk" through downtown Gainesville. This informal walk is a way for us to come together, discuss what we're seeing, discuss what makes downtown work, what it needs, and how the ideas from Jane Jacobs' "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" still resonate with the downtown we have today.
Jane's Walks are annual, community-led walks that take place the first weekend in May in hundreds of cities across the world. They are meant to bring community together and celebrate the community-driven, bottom-up approach to urban design championed by Jane Jacobs, a writer and urban theorist whose ideas have inspired generations of urbanists and planners.
This walk will be focused on downtown, using many of the ideas from Jane Jacobs 1958 essay, "Downtown is for People", whose ideas still resonate 67 years later. You can read that essay here:
http://innovationecosystem.pbworks.com/.../DowntownisforP...
We'll be meeting at How Bazar in downtown at 6:00 and stopping at various spots before ending back at How Bazar again.
