The National Association of Realtors highlighted Street Plans recently published Tactical Urbanist’s Guide to Materials & Design, which is free to download here. The article notes that “with the new guide you will find out the nitty, gritty “how-to’s” of how to undertake a tactical urbanism project in your community. Cities, both…
On Friday, January 6th live music, hanging lights, vendors, and most importantly, people, occupied one of the parking medians on Biscayne Boulevard in Downtown Miami from 7pm until midnight. In partnership with the Miami Downtown Development Authority, Moonlighter Makerspace, and the Miami-Dade County Department of Parks, Recreation, and Open Spaces,…
Letter to Mayor de Blasio December 15, 2016 Dear Mayor de Blasio, We truly appreciate your forceful defense of New York City’s most deeply held values. Your call for appropriate public demonstrations to protect our rights and freedoms is the correct response to the encroaching threat that so many…
Street Plans is thrilled to be featured in the first ever issue of Design Museum Magazine. This publication is produced by the Design Museum Foundation, a multi-city “nomadic” museum that creates exhibits and programs focused on educating the world about design. Within the theme of Vibrant Cities, the magazine featured an article…
Overall note: This blog post is one of 6 posts summarizing outcomes of the Beta City Workshop series Street Plans led as part of the Tactical Urbanist’s Guide to Materials and Design project. To learn more about the Materials Guide, click here. Long Beach, CA Workshop: Long Beach, CA…
Overall note: This blog post is one of 6 posts summarizing outcomes of the Beta City Workshop series Street Plans led as part of the Tactical Urbanist’s Guide to Materials and Design project. To learn more about the Materials Guide, click here. Washington D.C. Workshop: Street Plans led a…
Before After Final Design Penrith is a regional city on the edge of Metropolitan Sydney, Australia. In 2012, the city commissioned a master plan focused on revitalizing its retail core. Street Plans worked with the Sydney-based consultancy Place Partners to integrate Tactical Urbanism into the master planning…
The Van Alen Institute and the West Palm Beach Community Redevelopment Agency launched Shore to Core, a research and design competition to reimagine waterfront cities using West Palm Beach as a model. A team consisting of Street Plans, The Happy City Lab, and Professor Jennifer Roe–Director of University of Virginia’s Center…
With financial support from the Walton Family Foundation and in partnership with the Bicycle Coalition of the Ozarks, Street Plans was hired by the Northwest Arkansas Regional Planning Commission to work with the cities of Bentonville, Bella Vista, and Rogers to create a series of month-long bikeway pilot projects. Improvements included protected bike lanes…
Street Plans partnered with the City of Long Beach and City Fabrick to create a pop-up demonstration of a “Streetlet” on Saturday, November 12th. A Streetlet is a neighborhood public open space that reimagines underutilized sections of the street to create hubs of community activity. Streetlets could help improve pedestrian connections to…
