Jane's Walk is part of the Jane's Walk initiative, an annual festival that aims to honor activist and urbanist Jane Jacobs by organizing city walks around the world to reclaim streets as public spaces for coexistence and community gathering. This text on Jane Jacobs Walks, written by Susana Jiménez, is part of a series of guides made available by the project "La Aventura de Aprender" (The Adventure of Learning), conceived and coordinated by Antonio Lafuente and Patricia Horrillo.
Jiménez, a musician, philosopher, and PhD in art history, has been promoting and coordinating this experience in Madrid since 2010. Every first weekend of May, groups of neighbors and people interested in urban planning and neighborhood networks organize open assemblies to host this activity. It consists of walking through the streets of different proposed neighborhoods and discussing what is happening in them, whether regarding urban planning, housing, local events, or reclaiming collective memory.
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