JANE’S WALK 2025
May 2–4, 2025
Jane’s Walk is an annual global festival honoring the legacy of urbanist, activist, and writer Jane Jacobs with free, citizen-led walking tours through the neighborhoods that lend so much character to our cities.
The festival promotes civic engagement and encourages leaders and participants to share stories about their communities and use walking as a means of connecting with their neighbors.
Do you have a story to share about our beloved city of Atlanta? You should lead a Jane’s Walk. Fill out the form and we’ll get in touch.
Have any questions? Contact Felicia E. Gail, Public Programming & Membership Manager at felicia@museumofdesign.org.
Who Was Jane Jacobs?
Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) was a writer and activist who championed a community-based approach to city-building. Her first book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, introduced ground-breaking ideas about how cities function, evolve, and fail that have become conceptual pillars for today’s architects, planners, policymakers, activists, and other city builders.
Jacobs lived in Greenwich Village until 1968, when she moved to Toronto. In both cities, she helped derail the car-centered approach to urban planning and invigorated neighborhood activism by helping to stop the expansion of expressways and roads.