This article tells the story of Jane’s Walk, a festival that began as a one-city memorial to the great urban thinker Jane Jacobs, and has since evolved into a movement spanning nearly 200 cities around the world.
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What Public Humanities Means to Me
Last spring, I graduated from Brown University’s MA in Public Humanities program, and I often get asked what exactly I studied.
Jane Jacobs on Gentrification
Multiple articles about gentrification seem to spring up every week, and Jane Jacobs inevitably haunts nearly every one. Yet writers never seem to mention Jacobs’ own perspective on gentrification.
Groundhog Day: Learning from Routine
What if you could relive the same day over and over again until you got it right? It sounds like fantasy, but much like Phil in the film Groundhog Day, we become experts at the things we relive every day—routines like commuting.
Zebra Crossing
Since I moved to Providence, I’ve admired its beautiful network of zebra crosswalks.