This week in Jane (#jj100)
Jane’s 100th Birthday is Wednesday, May 4th and we have a lot of events and programs listed on the website for this week. We’ll be covering Jane’s Walk Weekend a lit later this week, but if you want to see the complete list of New York City walks, visit https://www.mas.org/janeswalk/ (For all other cities, visit https://janeswalk.org/)
But here’s a selection of what’s going on in the next few days:
- May 2: Chalking the LES (Lower East Side) continues (New York City)
- Closing May 2: HAClab Pittsburgh: Imagining the Modern, Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh)
- May 2 through May 8: the Jane at Home exhibition continues (Toronto)
- May 3: Jane Jacobs at 100: Lessons in NYC’s Public Space (Panel Discussion), Columbia School of International and Public Affairs (New York City)
- May 4: The City for the Living City presents Ray Suarez in the first of their Jane Jacobs 100th Lecture Series/ (New York City)
- May 4: Future of public space II: Design by Activism, Future Cape Town (Cape Town, South Africa)
- May 4: The Legacy of Jane Jacobs in the Village, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (New York City)
- May 4: Jane Jacobs Centennial Pub Crawl (New York City)
- May 4: Peter Laurence Book Talk: Becoming Jane Jacobs (New York City)
- May 4: Jane Jacobs at 100 – A View of Western Queens (New York City)
- May 4: Waterfront Dialogues: Helsinki+NYC (New York City)
- May 5: JJ100: Readings and Reflections from The Death and Life of Great American Cities at Times Square, using silent disco headphones (New York City)