Tactical urbanism

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Street Plans implemented six walkability workshops to gather feedback from residents for the City of Jersey City’s forthcoming Pedestrian Enhancement Plan.

While cities incorporate art into public spaces in a variety of ways, the focus of this initiative is what we’re calling asphalt art: visual interventions on roadways (intersections and crosswalks), pedestrian spaces (plazas and sidewalks), and vertical infrastructure (utility boxes, traffic barriers and underpasses). In October 2019, Bloomberg Associates and Street Plans released the Asphalt Art Guide. The Guide features over two dozen case studies highlighting successful plaza and roadway…

Today, the citizen's relationship with the urban context is moving towards the spreading of new practices for the re-appropriation of public spaces...

Tactical Urbanism – BE OPEN BLOG

Completed in 2018 in Jardim Everest, Brazil. Images by Sissy Eiko. The sidewalk as a qualified Public Space: As shared public spaces dedicated for daily displacements of pedestrians, the sidewalks represent a large...

Tactical Urbanism is an approach to neighborhood building that uses short-term, low-cost, and scalable interventions and policies to catalyze long term change.

Utile worked with the City of Boston and the nonprofit A Better City to develop design and process guidelines for tactical activation of the public realm. The project began with an audit of existing City policies around parklets and sidewalk cafes, leading to an overhaul of the way the City approaches placemaking interventions in the public realm. To codify the new regime, Utile created a Tactical Public Realm Standards document which includes both design guidelines and a how-to guide to the…

When looking specifically at public spaces, revitalization works to serve local communities by providing cultural, social, and economic nodes of development. Here’s an assemblage of 7 great examples of how urban revitalization can materialize.