Street Plans + Happy City Build One-Day Public Space Intervention in West Palm Beach, FL

On January 24th, Street Plans implemented a day-long public space intervention along the waterfront in Downtown West Palm Beach as a part of the winning research team, Happier by Design, of the Van Alen Institute and West Palm Beach Community Redevelopment Agency‘s Shore to Core design and research competition….

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 Presents at the Pro Walk/Pro Bike/Pro Place Conference in Vancouver

Street Plans delivered two talks in Vancouver the week of September 12th for the Pro Walk/Pro Bike/Pro Place Conference, the premiere conference in North America for walking and bicycling professionals. Together with the San Francisco Planning Department, Street Plans presented the recently published Public Space Stewardship Guide -a new print…

Street Plans and San Francisco Planning Release The Public Space Stewardship Guide

Street Plans, in collaboration with the San Francisco Planning Department and MJM Management Group, has released the Public Space Stewardship Guide, a living document that provides community groups and city leaders with models, case studies and ready-to-use tools for funding, programming and maintaining a successful public space. Successful public spaces require funding, programming, and maintenance;…

Planetizen Lists Tactical Urbanism As One of the Top 10 Planning Book for 2015

                  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…

Island Press Publishes Tactical Urbanism

                  After more than a year of researching and writing, Street Plans Principals Tony Garcia and Mike Lydon have published Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change. The highly anticipated book, published Island Press, is the culmination of four short-form and…