This weekend, the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) invites Atlantans to see their city differently — one block at a time. Jane’s Walk 2026 brings 16 free, citizen-led walking conversations to neighborhoods across Atlanta, from Sweet Auburn to Decatur to the West End, May 1–3.
How a 1961 book became a global walking festival
Jane Jacobs published “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” in 1961 with a simple, radical argument: cities are for people. More than six decades later, her ideas are the foundation of Jane’s Walk, an annual global movement now touching more than 500 cities worldwide.
The Museum of Design Atlanta coordinates Atlanta’s annual Jane’s Walk, a role that reflects the institution’s core belief about what design actually is. “At MODA we really believe that design is not just what things look like,” the museum’s executive director, Laure Flusche, said. “We think of design as being systems and architecture and objects, and we ask how they work for people, what challenges they help us take on.”
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