National Association of Realtors Highlights Tactical Urbanist’s Guide to Materials & Design

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…

Street Plans Builds First Temporary Pedestrian Promenade in Downtown Miami

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,…

Long Beach, CA Materials Guide Workshop

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…

Washington D.C. Materials Guide Workshop

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…

Street Plans + Place Partners Pop-Up Park in Penrith, Australia to Become Permanent

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…

Street Plans + Happy City Selected by Van Alen Institute to Lead Happier By Design Research in West Palm Beach, FL

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…

Street Plans Pilots Better Bikeways in Northwest Arkansas

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 Helps Create A Pop-Up “Streetlet” in Long Beach

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…