When: Friday, May 1st, 4:30 – 6:00 pm
Meeting Point: 446 Kingscourt Drive (Shamrock Co-operative Homes) Waterloo
Walk Leader: Kae Elgie
Jane Jacobs felt sidewalks are essential for good neighbourhoods. Is she right?
This Jane’s Walk will look at two neighbourhoods abutting Davenport Road in northeast Waterloo, the Foxhunt Neighbourhood which is richly supplied with sidewalks, and Colonial Acres, which have none.
Do sidewalks promote safety, interpersonal contact, as Jane Jacobs argued? Does not having sidewalks make people feel calmer, as Colonial Acres residents contend? Should the absence of sidewalks be a protected cultural heritage feature?
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