Street Plans has joined 100 Resilient Cities as a partner to provide “Tactical Resilience” workshops to 100RC members to help implement cities’ long-term resilience strategies. The workshops will be half or full-day “pop-up” sessions, where stakeholders and members of the public will experience what it means for their city to…
Through numerous community discussions, residents and business owners in San Jose’s West San Carlos and South Bascom Urban Villages have called for streets that are safer for people walking and biking. One priority in the area was the completion of a bikeway on Scott Street. This spring, Street Plans worked…
The District of Columbia’s Office of Planning has selected Street Plans, in partnership with the Washington Area Bicyclist Association, as a winner of its international competition, Crossing the Street: Building DC’s Inclusive Future through Creative Placemaking. The initiative is a part of Mayor Muriel Browser’s innoMAYtion, a month-long initiative…
Street Plans Principal Mike Lydon led a workshop in Great Falls, Montana this past week, focused on how Tactical Urbanism can be used to transform streets and public spaces. Lydon first led a walk audit to help workshop participants observe and react to the best/worst of existing conditions in downtown Great Falls….
The planning and development news site, Planetizen has honored Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change (Island Press) as one of the top planning books published in 2015. From the article: Tactical Urbanism serves as a how-to guide for activists who want to get in…
Street Plans Collaborative will join a team of consultants, led by Dover, Kohl & Partners, to create a Master Plan for the North Beach District of Miami Beach, Florida. Miami New Times covers the new plan in this article. The kick off to what will be called ‘Plan North Beach’ will be…
Open Streets could be coming to Philadelphia! During the Pope’s visit to Philly in late September, streets in the Center City were closed to cars. This unintentional car-free festival has sparked a movement pushing for Open Streets. On November 16, Mike Lydon will join a group of panelists to discuss…
Street Plans Principal Tony Garcia is the Chairman of the Board of Friends of the Ludlam Trail, an advocacy coalition that he initiated to help transform an abandoned railway track into a bike and pedestrian trail. Here is an article discussing how the trail will be temporarily activated on a…
The Congress for the New Urbanism is spotlighting the Charter Award winning downtown San Marcos, TX Form-Based Code (Code SMTX) that Street Plans contributed to alongside Dover Kohl & Partners, and the Town Planning and Urban Design Collaborative. The project kick-off, which included a weeklong charrette, utilized a day…
The Ottawa Citizen checks in with Mike Lydon in advance of his trip to the National Capital Commission’s Urban Lab. Check out the full interview here.
