Tour

Our urban environment affects our behavior – as individuals and as communities. That is the reason why we have every right to shape it for our own benefit. Jane’s Walk is an ordinary walk with an extraordinary purpose – to help us rediscover the settings we live in and connect with like-minded people.

Jane’s Walk is an international initiative organized by followers of Jane Jacobs. She was an architectural journalist who led a grassroots movement against the transformation of New York into a city of cars rather than a city of citizens in the 1960s. Thanks in large part to her efforts, urban planning today talks a lot more of communities, social capital and accessibility of the environment.

The Bulgarian town of Haskovo has hosted Jane’s Walk since 2013. Now, the people of Haskovo share their experiences with the people of Plovdiv. It seems fair they should do so, considering Haskovo took over the brewing of Plovdiv’s own Kamenitsa beer.