Jane’s Walk in Brentwood

No one can find what will work for our cities by looking at … suburban garden cities, manipulating scale models, or inventing dream cities. You’ve got to get out and walk.”
-Jane Jacobs (from Downtown is for People, 1957).

May 4^th and 5^th marks the annual Jane’s Walk, an event which happens throughout North America and honours the late Jane Jacobs (1916-2006). And Calgary is hosting quite a few walks!

Who was Jane Jacobs?

Jane was an author, activist and urban thinker known for her influence on creating “walkable” neighborhoods. She lived in Greenwich Village, New York and later in Toronto, Ontario where she spearheaded movements that favored more walkability in communities (over more car-centered approaches). Her vision of cities was unique; she saw every city as its own ecosystem with its own narratives that would change over time, shaped by its communities.

Brentwood Celebrates 50 Years

The Nose Hill library is pleased to be hosting “Brentwood Celebrates 50 Years” for this year’s Jane’s Walk. Come walk, and listen to remarkable stories that shaped the Brentwood community this upcoming Saturday, May 4th. All walkers please meet us at 10:30am, just outside our library program room. For more information about this and other Jane’s Walks in Calgary, why not visit: http://www.janeswalk.net/index.php/walks/canada/calgary/

Happy birthday to us! Today, in 1988, the Nose Hill Library opened for business. That same year...

Nintendo released Super Mario Bros. 3.

The Governor General's Award for English language fiction David Adams Richards, Nights Below Station Street.

The Pullitzer prize for Fiction was awarded to Toni Morrison for her novel Beloved .

The Pullitzer prize for Non-fiction was The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes.

In film, the epic motion picture The Last Emperor won nine Oscars.

And Stephen Hawking Published A Brief History Of Time.

And, of course.....

Calgary made its mark worldwide hosting the Winter Olympics. It was the last Olympics where athletes from the Soviet union played together. The year after, the Berlin Wall came down and all the republics regained independence.

1988 Pop Quiz:

The 1988 games saw the "Battle of the Brians" in figure skating between which two Brians? Who took the gold medal?

The official mascots for the games were Hidy and Howdy. What were they?

Who took home the gold at the 1988 Olympics in hockey?

And another fun quiz, vintage style! : Who knows whose nose? Our library is surrounded by other famous noses! Can you name them all?Who Knows Whose Nose?