“Jane’s Walk

Free community-conversation walk led by Jessee Muñiz-Poland, town board member, and Susan Barlow, town historian, this approximately one-mile walk invites us to discuss our experiences of living and working in Manchester. We will visit the History Center after the walk. Inspired by community activist Jane Jacobs, Jane’s Walk is a global festival of volunteer-led walking conversations. Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) was a writer and activist who championed a community-based approach to city-building. Her 1961 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, introduced ground-breaking ideas about how cities function, evolve, and fail. Jacobs lived in Greenwich Village and opposed Robert Moses’s plan to build a highway through Washington Square Park. She moved to Toronto in 1968. More https://janeswalk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Jane-Jacobs-Ten-big-Ideas.pdf