The New South Wales (NSW) Architects Registration Board recently released a new publication titled Towards The Public Interest: the role of architects and citizens in making the city for the common good. As part of the publication, Street Plans’ Principal Mike Lydon shared his thoughts about Tactical Urbanism and its…
Street Plans’ Principal Mike Lydon is featured throughout the most popular Streetfilm of the year. The readers of Streetsblog, the popular online publication advocating for better alternative forms of transportation, voted Transform Your City With Tactical Urbanism as the best Streetfilm of 2017. Streetfilms produces short films about transportation policy and design. …
As part of Southern California Association of Government’s (SCAG) Go Human region-wide safety and encouragement campaign, Street Plans implemented Tactical Urbanism demonstration projects in 8 different cities in 2017 and will continue to implement more in Southern California in 2018. Streetfilms, an organization that produces short transportation films, recently…
Street Plans is happy to announce the launch of City Walk, a project led by the City of Providence Department of Planning and Development to improve the connection between nine different Providence neighborhoods through better bike and pedestrian infrastructure. As a sub-consultant for Toole Design Group, Street Plans will…
Street Plans’ Principal Mike Lydon gave a talk to Cornell Planning Students, local planners, and government officials in Ithaca, NY last month about the Tactical Urbanism movement. The event was hosted by Cornell’s Department of City and Regional Planning. “Mike’s talk downtown really inspired folks working on the ground in…
Street Plans’ Principal Mike Lydon wrote a chapter on creating Resilient Streets and Resilient Cities in a new book titled Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval, published by Island Press and edited by Post Carbon Institute‘s Daniel Lerch. “So-called tactical resilience is the application of…
Street Plans’ Principal Mike Lydon was a featured speaker at Project for Public Space’s Placemaking Week in Amsterdam on October 13th. Placemaking Week is an annual conference put on by Project for Public Spaces, a non-profit planning, design, and educational organization. The week is meant to be a “dynamic…
Join Street Plans this Friday, 10/20, for a webinar about Tactical Urbanism with the Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP)! Click HERE to register and learn more.
Burlington, VT’s Quick Build Program is underway! The City of Burlington’s Department of Public Works built the City’s first protected bike lane on Union Street on October 12-13. This project was first identified in the PlanBTV Walk Bike Master Plan – Burlington’s first citywide planning effort focused on active…
Together with San Francisco Planning and The East Cut Community Benefit District, Street Plans is leading the public outreach strategy for the creation of the South Downtown Design and Activation Plan. The plan aims to create a comprehensive vision for the design, implementation, and stewardship of the public realm in the…
