Category: Keynote

Street Plans Principal, Mike Lydon, Provides Opening Keynote at the Pěšky městem (Walk the City) 2023 Conference in Prague

Last week, Street Plans Principal Mike Lydon gave the opening keynote presentation entitled “Tactical Urbanism: Short-Term Action for Long-Term Change” at Pěšky městem (Walk the City) 2023 Conference last week in Prague. With interest in the subject growing across the Czech Republic, Mike’s presentation focused on introducing Tactical Urbanism…

Confronting COVID-19

In a recent webinar hosted by ULI’s Building Healthy Places Initiative, Principal Tony Garcia discussed how creative uses of transportation infrastructure during the COVID-19 pandemic have helped provide spaces to gather in socially distant ways.

The Monocle Minute

Street Plans Principal Mike Lydon was cited in The Monocle Minute newsletter on the Streets for Pandemic Response and Recovery guide that synthesizes emerging practices in transportation and street design.

Open Streets for Small Businesses

Mike Lydon was quoted in this CNN Business article about the need to configure our streets to support walking, biking, and high-frequency transit to aid in the country’s economic recovery. Read more in our Streets for Pandemic Response and Recovery guide.

The War on Cars Interview

Mike Lydon joined The War on Cars podcast to talk about the positive changes that have resulted from the spacial reallocation of our streets during the COVID pandemic. He thinks that cities can start looking at ways to make some changes permanent.

TUMI Webinar

The Transforming Urban Mobility Initiative hosted Mike Lydon, Laura Bahamón from the City of Bogotá, and moderator Carlos Pardo of NUMO to discuss Tactical Urbanism in the age of COVID19. Lydon explains what Tactical Urbanism is and how cities can, and are, leveraging its core principles to respond to…

City State Radio

Mike Lydon joined colleagues from Louisville’s Urban Design Studio and around the nation in discussing impacts, responses, and ideas for how cities manage and recover from the COVID19 pandemic.  Click Here to hear the episode!