Tactical urbanism projects

Street Plans led implementation of three parklets and subsequent walkabilty workshops to inform Jersey City’s forthcoming Pedestrian Enhancement Plan.

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

Street Plans Collaborative this week announced that Fayetteville is one of six cities around the country chosen to participate in their workshop series on tactical urbanism.

Urbhang is an urban intervention aiming to activate a public space and transform it into a lively experience, by creating an outdoor public living room where people are invited to sit, read, rest, play, work, meet and interact. Urbhang is a series of hanging urban installations for hanging out.

TerraViva Competitions launches TACTICAL URBANISM NOW!, a new architecture and design competition focused on the transformation of contemporary public spaces. Prizes up to 4.000 € will be awarded to the winners selected by an international jury panel composed by, among...

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…

This spring, Finland’s second city Tampere has been the scene of an interesting urban planning spectacle. Or probably ‘drama’ is a better word to describe the turmoil around the city’s ambition to move on to the second phase of its experiment for temporarily transforming Tampere’s main street, Hämeenkatu, into a transit-only zone. The first phase

Any successful urban space in a city has lots of factors attached to it. Spaces speak and portray some characters that create certain experience for the user. Place making is one of the phenomenonsthat look after such character of the urban space. It is an approach to the planning, design and management of public spaces. A multi-faceted aspect in itself, with the intention of creating public spaces that promote people's health, happiness, and well-being.Place making helps to tap into local…

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Image 19 of 25 from gallery of Agora Maximus, Tactical Urbanism Project / LAAB Collective + Signature Design Communication. Photograph by Raphaël Thibodeau