“I had the pleasure of joining a Jane’s Walk led by HiMY SYeD today.
“He wore a Labyrinth pattern shirt and had a Labyrinth pattern jacket as well.”
I had the pleasure of joining a Jane’s Walk led by @LabyrinthsDOTca today. He wore a labyrinth pattern shirt and had a labyrinth pattern jacket as well. #JanesWalkTO pic.twitter.com/Xk9LFRfT5Z
— Richard Eriksson (@sillygwailo) May 6, 2023
Happy World Labyrinth Day Julie!
Thank you for joining my World Labyrinth Day: Toronto City of Labyrinths Jane’s Walk!
We need to know the mayor candidates position on ending the cities ridiculous removal of labyrinths!!
— George Bell (@georgebell) May 6, 2023
We need to know the mayor candidates position on ending the cities ridiculous removal of labyrinths!!
— George Bell (@georgebell) May 6, 2023
Many thanks to Sarah Jensen (@the.heartofbarrie)
For joining my Toronto Jane’s Walk
And for sharing images
ReGrammed from her two posts :
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cr4gdO_M3dR/
&
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cr4lpNbsKZV/
“I’m in Toronto for the weekend for Jane’s Walk Toronto.
A Jane’s Walk is a walking conversations inspired by writer and urbanist Jane Jacobs.
They’re held in hundreds of cities across the world.
(Including 5 of them in Barrie throughout May)
Tonight’s walk through Parkdale Village and Exhibition Place shared ideas from her 11 books.
And it was led by HiMY, the guy who (somewhat illegally) paints Labyrinths all over Toronto! @LabyrinthsDOTca 👏
This first half of the walk featured community gardens, one of the ping pong tables I’ve been eyeing up for Barrie and Trenton Terrace, home to the most adorable workers cottages (that were once affordable).”
— Sarah Jensen, The Heart of Barrie
Grateful you found attending this evening’s Jane’s Walk worthwhile.
I did not make the connection between you and Barrie.
I know you have car-free days through the summer, I intend to pop up there in Barrie during one or more of them to chalk Labyrinths in the open car free public spaces.
I trust people will enjoy exploring & walking them.
Thank you for joining my Jane’s Walk!
“Such a great walk to start the weekend, thank you!
I’m based in Barrie, but in Toronto fairly often, especially the Parkdale area.
It’s one of my adopted neighbourhoods.
I enjoyed learning more about it and Jane.
We’d love to have you come to Barrie and create Labyrinths!
We’re running our car free Open Air Dunlops twice a month, starting June 10th.
Let me know if you’re coming up.”
— Sarah Jensen, The Heart of Barrie
Our Jane’s Walk began in front of the Parkdale Labyrinth
Inside Masaryk Park in Parkdale, Toronto.
I shared that since Childhood, Jane Jacobs was fascinated with Mazes and Labyrinths.
Cities as Labyrinths, without dead ends, rather than Cities as Mazes with many dead ends, is something that informed Jane Jacobs on her understanding of The City and its Streets, which comes through and can be found in her writings.
Jane Jacobs had at least one book about Mazes and Labyrinths on the shelf in her personal library at home, at the time of her passing in 2006.
Labyrinths and “Mazing” of streets by using one-way streets and forced turns for vehicles to improve quality of life inside residential neighbourhoods was something I did my best to express at the start of my Jane’s Walk.
Our Jane’s Walk made it as far as Fort Rouille located inside,
Or rather located as an interrupted concrete outline on the ground,
Within present day Exhibition Place.
Our final stop was opposite Ontario Place.
Here I suggested that “Ontario Place For All”,
The group aiming to save Ontario Place,
Should rename themselves as:
“Ontario Place for All, Austria Place for Some”
Because during the Spadina Expressway era,
Whenever the group was mentioned in print or on TV,
It included their SOS mandate:
“Stop Spadina Save Our City” [ Co-ordinating Committee ] .
Likewise “…Austria Place For Some”
Grateful to Olivia Chow,
Who joined 34 fellow Jane’s Walkers on my
“The 11 Books of Jane Jacobs All in One Jane’s Walk”
Almost everyone ( 30! ), including Olivia, stayed til the final walk stop opposite Ontario Place.
“HiMY SYeD leading a Toronto Jane’s Walk celebrating Jane Jacobs’ urbanism and philosophy through her books.
“We are imagining the Spadina Expressway nightmare and are grateful of Jacobs’ role in stopping it.
Grateful to #OliviaChow,
Who joined 34 fellow Jane's Walkers on my
"The 11 Books of Jane Jacobs All in One Jane's Walk"https://t.co/qo0ZUp5PdI
Almost everyone ( 30! ), including Olivia, stayed til the final walk stop opposite Ontario Place.
| #JanesWalkTO #JanesWalk #TOpoli https://t.co/IJO5nvzTbs
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) May 6, 2023
“Nice to see Olivia Chow on a Toronto Jane’s Walk led by HiMY SYeD on the topic of Jane Jacobs’ books on cities.”
Nice to see @oliviachow on a @JanesWalkTO led by Himy Syed on the topic of #JaneJacob books on cities pic.twitter.com/PfDognqnkS
— Ushnish Sengupta (@ultush) May 5, 2023
Dark Age Ahead – The Wizard of Ossington Jane's Walkhttps://t.co/QudFTCVL3p
Date : Friday May 6 2022
Time : 5:30 p.m.
Start : Meet in middle of Medicine Wheel #Labyrinth atop traffic island opposite Christie Street Subway Station entrance
| #JanesWalkTO #JanesWalk #Toronto pic.twitter.com/UOldpIOks0
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) April 6, 2022
World Labyrinth Day – Sunnyside Jane's Walk
Walk Canada's largest, most complex, Octagon Labyrinth!
+ Two more Labyrinths
Date : Saturday May 7 2022
Time : 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Start : Budapest Park, Beside the Dinosaurs
| #JanesWalkTO #loveTOwalk#WorldLabyrinthDay #Labyrinths pic.twitter.com/HKxGHTRiUG
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) April 9, 2022
World Labyrinth Day ~ Blue Zone Scarborough Jane's Walk
Learn how Labyrinths transform Neighbourhoods into Blue Zones
Date : Saturday May 7 2022
Time : 7:15 p.m – 8 p.m.
Start : Traffic Island, Teesdale Place
| #JanesWalkTO #loveTOwalk #BlueZones#WorldLabyrinthDay #ScarbTO pic.twitter.com/eY5jFM1JRI
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) April 9, 2022
The Girl on the Hat – A Children's Jane's Walkhttps://t.co/mOWBwTod4s
Date : Sunday May 8 2022
Time : 1 p.m.
Start : 69 Albany Avenue, sidewalk in front of Jane Jacobs' house
(Parents+Grandparents can come too!)
| #JanesWalkTO #JanesWalk #loveTOwalk
#storytelling #Toronto pic.twitter.com/3jyC5Yd85n— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) April 7, 2022
I don't understand Toronto's obsession with labrynths, but maybe I will after this Jane's Walk… pic.twitter.com/jtd5ufidxD
— Jess Brodeur (@jessicaannebro) May 5, 2019
@HiMYSYeD focused on his contribution as a painter of labrynths. I'll have to dig further to find out more about the story of labrynths in Toronto!
— Jess Brodeur (@jessicaannebro) May 7, 2019
"World Labyrinth Day – City of Labyrinths Jane's Walk"https://t.co/V1kGYZa6Fm
Saturday 4 May 2019
6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Blue Labyrinth in middle of Grange Park,
Downtown Toronto
| #Labyrinths🍥#LabyrinthDay #WorldLabyrinthDay
#LoveTOwalk #JanesWalkTO #JanesWalk #Toronto🏙️ pic.twitter.com/XTY9tHQzYp— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) May 2, 2019
When two Jane's Walks collide at Grange Park, walks led by @NadiaMHalim and @HiMYSYeD #JanesWalkTO pic.twitter.com/QoHgxVv5ls
— cyntrope (@cyntrope) May 4, 2019
It’s the Sunday after World Labyrinth Day 2016, which was the day before, and I am leading a different Jane’s Walk than the one yesterday.
As my Dark Age Ahead – The Wizard of Ossington Jane’s Walk begins and passes through Christie Pits Park, I usually include a brief walk stop by my Christie Pits Park Wading Pool Labyrinth.
That’s where Nicole’s instagram above was captured.
Being a Jane’s Walk leader often has me concentrating on doing the best job I can.
That entails putting away the camera to be there in the moment.
I have so few photographs of my own walks.
Thankfully, Nicole shared a number of instagrams throughout this walk. And I am deeply grateful!
Enjoy…