Fri, May 02
|Bruce Park - Under the Pavilion
Who Designs Our Cities?
Jane's Walk: Take a walk with local architect, Nicolas Lamoureux and explore the complicated or complex decisions that get made to make our built environment the way that it is today. How did we get here and where can we go from here?
Time & Location
May 02, 2025, 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Bruce Park - Under the Pavilion, 667 Church St, Windsor, ON N9A 4T5, Canada
About the event
Who Designs Our Cities?
Host: Nicolas Lamoureux (Atelier Lamoureux)
Contact host: hello@atelierlamoureux.com
This Jane’s Walk will get into the details on who designs our cities and why they’re designed the way they’re designed. The walk will start with a discussion on a zoomed out, large scale orientation of the city's zoning and work its way down to the minute individual details of an average setting you might find yourself in, in downtown Windsor. The talk will discuss the roles of architects, engineers, planners, landscape architects, politicians, and citizens in these decisions and how their interconnected roles form the basis of our built environment.
Most importantly, this discussion will move into what these decisions mean for us as the inhabitants of these spaces. What it means for our collective environment, our ecosystems, our sense of public vs. private, our pride, our empathy, and our love for where we call home. Bring an open-mind and some creativity as I hope to talk to those on the walk about where we are now and how we can all help to make things better. These community organized events, like Jane’s Walk, might seem neutral at best to many, but they help us to unlearn our learned helplessness and push us to take small incremental steps to improve ourselves and the places we live in. What ideas do you have? How can we give those without a voice a voice in design? How can you help?
Event location: The walk will start and end at Bruce Park - Under the Pavilion (667 Church Street, Windsor, ON, N9A 4T5)
Type of Event:
Jane's Walk - Guided walking tour
Accessibility notes:
Easy walk (using paved pathways with no hills).
Wheelchair-friendly
Baby stroller-friendly
Appropriate for kids
Is there a bathroom nearby?
No public bathroom available.
Where can attendees park?
Free street parking around the starting/ending location
How much walking is involved?
Approximately 1.5 km of walking