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Susie Davidson / [email protected] If Ken Sacharin s mapping project is as entertaining as he is, it s worth a download for that alone. After all, his tagline reads If you re not part of the solution, you re in colloidal suspension. A Memphis native, Sacharin s parents were married in Memphis by Elvis Presley s upstairs landlord in the late 1940s. Their rabbi owned the house, and rented the bottom unit to the Presleys, he explained. Elvis was a Shabbos Goy sometimes. The King even paid one of Sacharin s schoolmates to play racquetball with him at Graceland, Sacharin recalled. By his own admission, however, none of this explains why Sacharin is qualified to sift and geo-tag Manhattan s past. I m not, really, he maintains. But I have a lot of time on my hands. ....
Last Call with Eleanor Gilmore and Joyce Mandell, Jane Week Organizers Sarah Connell Sanders Correspondent Jane Jacobs was an urban design pioneer, widely celebrated for her 1961 landmark text, “The Death and Life of Great American Cities.” In Worcester, we honor Jacobs each year with Jane Week, an opportunity to examine the design and function of our city. Eleanor Gilmore and Joyce Mandell are Jane Week s organizers. Joyce, can you tell us how Jane Week got started in Worcester? JM: Our first Jane Week was in 2017 and it was the culmination of a year of celebrating Jane Jacobs’ hundredth birthday. There are actually Jane Celebrations all over the world, which is very exciting. There were about 200 Jane Walks that year in New York alone. We didn t have Jane Week last year because of the pandemic and I actually held on to the Jane Award; it s been on my shelf for a year. Every year, we give out a Jane Award to a project that emulates the best design or r ....
Press Release – Living Streets Aotearoa Around the world, people celebrate Jane Jacobs’ urbanist legacy in early May. Due to Covid-19, only a few walks could happen in real life rather than virtually in 2021. In Wellington, Living Streets Wellington leader Ellen Blake and founder and former Mayor Celia Wade-Brown decided that Wellington’s walkability is a tribute to urbanist thinking already and could become even better. Join us on Friday 7th May at 12:15 pm. Ellen Blake says: “Jane Jacobs was an inspirational woman whose activism in favour of street life rather than huge projects and motorways still rings true.” Ms Blake says, “With Let’s Get Wellington Moving at last considering various improvements for people on foot, time is ripe to promote some critical opportunities we see, such as giving pedestrians far higher priority from the Railway Station to Featherston Street.” ....
Around the world, people celebrate Jane Jacobs’ urbanist legacy in early May. Due to Covid-19, only a few walks can happen in real life rather than virtually in 2021. In Wellington, Living Streets Wellington leader Ellen Blake and founder and . ....