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May
7
10:00 AM10:00

Canada: The Corkscrew Road

  • 575 Columbia Street, SW corner of Columbia and Sixth Ave., Kamloops, BC V2C 6M6 Canada (map)
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The Corkscrew Road is both real and imaginary; real because it once ran between Kamloops and Knutsford; imaginary because so much of it has disappeared. This walk will lead you to a few abandoned sections of the Corkscrew Road and share with you some of its history. Today the road exists in a strange limbo between remembering and forgetting. This in between state allows for both historic speculation and creative reconstruction. Come re-experience and re-imagine the Corkscrew Road.

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May
6
9:00 AM09:00

Canada: Exploring Route 15 & the new COC

  • Special Events bus stop - 23rd Street & 2nd Avenue (between 1st & 2nd Avenue) (map)
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This Jane Jacobs Walk begins in the downtown terminal and will feature several aspects of taking Saskatoon Transit. Participants will take Route 15 from the downtown terminal to the new Civic Operations Center (COC) at 57 Valley Road. The trip will include transit history along the way and a short walk upon arriving at the COC.

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May
8
1:00 PM13:00

Vancouver, BC, Canada: Our Changing Chinatown

  • 288 East Hastings Street Vancouver, BC V6A 1P1 Canada (map)
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Walk with the Chinatown Youth Coalition and bear witness to development pressures threatening a way of life that has defined and protected the community’s low-income Chinese residents and businesses for generations. Hear community responses within the contexts of social justice and the right to remain, food security and community organizing. How can the needs of economic development also respect and serve the needs of a living community and culture of a National Historic Site and one of Vancouver’s founding neighbourhoods?

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May
7
2:00 PM14:00

Orillia, ON, Canada: Orillia's 5th Annual Jane Jacobs Walk

Walk-ability is one of the foundational principles that underlies Jane's ideas about the human habitat. But what does this mean if you use such places with a wheel chair?  We will explore the downtown looking for those elements of good design that assist those who navigate the built environment with wheels.

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