Join the Thornton Park Neighborhood Association and Orlando YIMBY in a Jane Jacobs Walk Urbanist Walking Tour of the Thornton Park Neighborhood in downtown Orlando. Led by Logan Lamphere, a Master of Urban and Regional Planning, member of Orlando YIMBY, and officer in the Neighborhood Association, participants will observe and discuss various elements of urban planning, including:

• Urban design
• Community building
• Transportation
• Public health
• Public safety
• Land use and zoning
• Economic development
• Housing
• Environmental planning

Who Can Participate? This tour is open to the community and anyone interested in participating is asked to RSVP.

Where is the Tour?: Participants are encouraged to take transit options like Lynx/Lymmo buses or Sunrail, or to carpool if you travel together in a car. Parking is available on the street throughout the neighborhood, or in the City of Orlando Thornton Park Garage at 22 N. Summerlin Avenue. Participants will meet at the Washington Street Fountain located at 819 E. Washington Street. The tour will last about an hour and a half, click here to view the map.

What Should I Bring?: Participants should plan to wear comfortable clothes for walking around outside, including a hat, sunscreen, sunglasses, water bottle, and comfortable shoes for walking. The tour will conclude at Burton's Thornton Park, located at 801 E. Washington Street. Burton's offers a variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages for purchase.

About Jane Jacobs

Each year, communities across the US hold walks in honor of Jane Jacobs on the first weekend in May. Jane Jacobs, known as the Mother of Modern Urban Planning, was a writer, urbanist, and activist who championed a community-based approach to city-building. She had no formal training as a planner, and yet her 1961 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, introduced ground-breaking ideas about how cities function, evolve, and fail that have become conceptual pillars for today’s architects, planners, policymakers, activists, and other city builders.