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So much to celebrate in Scranton: First Friday and new festival hits the downtown From Friday Night fun to a new event dubbed Observe Scranton, there is plenty to see and even learn about in the Electric City this weekend. Author: Ryan Leckey Updated: 6:46 AM EDT May 7, 2021 SCRANTON, Pa. There is plenty to check out this weekend in downtown Scranton. Newswatch 16 s Ryan Leckey highlighted the happenings. First Friday Scranton First Friday happens today. Family-friendly fun is on tap throughout the downtown and at the Marketplace at Steamtown in Scranton Friday, May 7, from 5 p.m.to 8 p.m. Click here for an event map. Learn more about all things First Friday at this link. WNEP-TV is a proud media sponsor of First Friday events. ....
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 ....
NEW YORK â Front stoops have long welcomed visitors to homes and have served as gathering spots for friends and neighbors engaging in what urban design activist Jane Jacobs calls âthe sidewalk ballet.â Since the pandemic left many people isolated and locked down at home, stoops have become more central again. New Yorkers, for instance, âhave discovered that from the top of their stoops it is possible to safely catch up with a friend, commune with neighbors, clap for essential workers, or have a drink at a responsible distance, a quarantine rite known as the âstoop hang,â â Marie Solis wrote in Gothamist last summer. ....
“Among all species, it is perhaps only humans who create habitats that are not fit to live in.” – Stephen Marshall It’s a damning statement but one that can be reasonably argued to be true. We don’t have the best track record in creating lasting and sustainable habitats, especially if one considers cities built in the past century. The next 50 years will demand a new model of urban development. For a more sustainable future in a world of climate change, 21st-century cities must be based on models of adaptation that learn from natural systems. We now have the digital modelling technology to design such cities, rather than the fixed urban form that now dominates our world. ....
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