{"id":19727,"date":"2011-05-05T11:43:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T15:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=19727"},"modified":"2011-05-05T22:50:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T02:50:40","slug":"janes-walk-this-weekend-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/05\/05\/janes-walk-this-weekend-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane&#8217;s Walk this weekend: program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-19737\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/05\/05\/janes-walk-this-weekend-program\/janeswalktelaviv-3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19737\" title=\"JanesWalkTelAviv\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/05\/JanesWalkTelAviv2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/05\/JanesWalkTelAviv2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/05\/JanesWalkTelAviv2-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was visiting Israel for the first time last week, and had the pleasure of meeting Nisan, the graduate student who is organizing the first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Janes-Walk-TLV\/100471990039690\" target=\"_blank\">Jane&#8217;s Walks in Tel Aviv\/Jaffa<\/a> this year. He&#8217;s already recruited several other enthusiastic guides to explore the city this weekend. It&#8217;s remarkable how the Jane&#8217;s Walk idea has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janeswalk.net\/region\/worldwide\/\" target=\"_blank\">taken off around the world<\/a> in just a few years &#8212; the simplicity and flexibility of the concept makes it easy to adopt.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, here in the Toronto area over 170 walks are scheduled for this weekend. You can see the <a href=\"http:\/\/janeswalk.net\/cities\/landing\/category\/toronto\/\" target=\"_blank\">detailed schedule on the Jane&#8217;s Walk website<\/a>, but there&#8217;s also a handy, printable <a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/05\/2011JWalkTorontomicroschedule1.pdf\">Jane&#8217;s Walk microschedule<\/a> (PDF).\u00a0 It&#8217;s easy to find a convenient walk near where you live &#8212; and also worthwhile to travel to find one that will explore a part of Toronto you&#8217;re unfamiliar with. The walks help us realize\u00a0 just how much there is to see in our vast city.<\/p>\n<p>Several <em>Spacing<\/em> editors and columnists are leading walks this weekend, including <a href=\"http:\/\/janeswalk.net\/walks\/view\/nathan_phillips_square_--_our_concrete_manifestation_of_peace_order_and_goo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shawn Micallef<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/janeswalk.net\/walks\/view\/r.c._harris_and_his_legacy_along_st._clair_west\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Lorinc<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/janeswalk.net\/walks\/view\/parkdale_scummy_parkdale\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amy Lavender Harris<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/janeswalk.net\/walks\/view\/pedestrian_infrastructure_-_the_university_of_toronto_downtown_campus_editi\/\" target=\"_blank\">myself<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Janes-Walk-TLV\/100471990039690\" target=\"_blank\">Jane&#8217;s Walk Tel Aviv<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was visiting Israel for the first time last week, and had the pleasure of meeting Nisan, the graduate student who is organizing the first Jane&#8217;s Walks in Tel Aviv\/Jaffa this year. He&#8217;s already recruited several other enthusiastic guides to explore the city this weekend. It&#8217;s remarkable how the Jane&#8217;s Walk idea has taken off<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/05\/05\/janes-walk-this-weekend-program\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Jane&#8217;s Walk this weekend: program&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[2360,568,1030,416,310,13375,19],"class_list":["post-19727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-walking","tag-amy-lavender-harris","tag-israel","tag-john-lorinc","tag-pdf","tag-shawn-micallef","tag-tel-aviv","tag-toronto"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jane&#039;s Walk this weekend: program - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/05\/05\/janes-walk-this-weekend-program\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jane&#039;s Walk this weekend: program - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I was visiting Israel for the first time last week, and had the pleasure of meeting Nisan, the graduate student who is organizing the first Jane&#8217;s Walks in Tel Aviv\/Jaffa this year. 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