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 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…
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 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, 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;…
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…
The City of San Francisco’s Planning Department has hired Street Plans to develop a toolkit for managing, funding, and maintaining public spaces. The toolkit will include a guide that includes national best practices and how they apply to San Francisco, and a dynamic website that will continue to…
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…
