Jane Jacobs Walk: Honouring one of the pioneers of urban planning and human space.

1. Happy Birthday Jane!
Would have been 100 on 4 May 2016

2. Orillia’s 5th Annual
Jane Jacobs Walk
7 May 2016

3. Jane Who?

4. Jane’s Ideas

5. Are cities good or evil?

6. Romulus builds Rome

7. Cities: vice, crime, decadence

8. Cities: pollution, poverty, disease

9. Solution: urban renewal

10. Solution: sub-urban sprawl

11. Results: chronic problems
• poor health
• damaged environment
• under-performing economies

12. Results: poor health

13. Results: poor environment

15. Results: poor economy

17. Parking
• most mismanaged land on Earth
– Per space
• $US 10 - 50 thousand to build
• $US 300 - 400 to maintain & operate
• Better Towns & Cities
– Per Space
• $CAN 900 - 2,000
• Pamela Blais, http://vimeo.com/52508946 [23sep2014]

18. What would Jane say?

19. What would Jane do?

20. Emerging Response
• Creating Place
– Neo-traditional Design
– Urban Village
– New Urbanism
– Smart Growth
– Transit-Oriented Development
– Healthy Communities
– Complete Streets
– Strong Towns
– Transition Towns
– Place Making
– Active Transportation
– Happy Cities
– Urban Sustainability
• All based on Jane’s ideas

21. Generate Diversity
Natural Diversity Human Diversity
Natural Rural Suburban Urban Area Urban Core

22. Place Creation Principles
1. Walkability
2. Connectivity
3. Multiplicity
4. Diversity
5. Quality
6. Traditional structure
7. Density
8. Transportation
9. Environment
10.Integration

23. Walk-ability
&
Connectivity
Downtown core
5 minute walk
10 minute walk

24. Mixed-Use & Quality

25. Diversity

26. Traditional Structure

27. Density & Transportation

28. Environment

29. Integration
• ALL the above elements must be used
together to achieve a healthy human
habitat

30. How does Planning matter?
 When done poorly:
 destroy countryside
 produce sub-urban sprawl
 When done well:
 preserve the countryside
 build the city
Does Creating Place matter?

31. Jane: my hero!

32. “Walk - Ability”
• “No one can find what will work for our
cities by looking at … suburban garden
cities, manipulating scale models, or
inventing dream cities. You’ve got to get
out and walk.”
- Jane Jacobs, Downtown is for People, 1957.