Thanks to generous funding from the Fund for the Environment and Urban Life, we’ve spent the last 5 months working with Streetfilms and our Open Streets Project partners,The Alliance for Biking and Walking, to document The Rise of Open Streets. Enjoy!
The Atlanta Regional Commission has selected Street Plans to use Tactical Urbanism as tool for demonstrating Lifelong Communities principles. Joining us will be our friends at Dallas-based Team Better Block and Alta Planning + Design‘s Atlanta office. The demonstration project will be developed over the next several months and implemented in…
Grand Central Park, a temporary 5-acre park located in downtown Miami will close at the end of 2014 to make way for permanent development. The Miami Herald covers the story and mentions Street Plans and the Tactical Urbanism booklets.
Mike Lydon recently recorded two courses on Tactical Urbanism for Planetizen. Course 1 is available now! You can check out the Introduction to Course 1 for free here. Course 2 will be released in January, 2014.
Mike Lydon proposed a Rails-with-Trails corridor along a 24-mile railway between Auburn and Portland, Maine, reports The Forecaster. The company that operates the railway recently anounced that it would be discontinuing its service to its only customer on that line. The Street Plans Collaborative is behind a five-town effort…
The Forecaster reports Mike Lydon’s presentation at a forum helf by the Active Living Task Force in Freeport, Maine. The Street Plans Collaborative, along with the Task Force, will develop an Active Living Plan for the town by February 2014. He explained that options to increase pedestrain and cyclist…
The Tri-Town Weekly recently interviewed Principal Mike Lydon about Open Streets and the Freeport , ME Active Living Plan, an effort currently underway to enhance walking, biking, cross-country skiing, hiking, and general open space access. Street Plans is the lead consultant for the creation of the plan, which will…
