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The following posts are filed under: tactical urbanism.
Got a bad street? Good news: it’s now easier to reshape it!
As of today it’s finally way easier to try out retrofits to our bad streets – you know, the ones that make it generally yuk to do anything except be in a car. Get onto your local council – they’ve now got all the tools!
Read MoreReshaping streets for transport justice: webinar with Oakland, CA
Because people in councils and consultancies are generally employed, white, middle-class, the solutions they suggest for cities are often “elite projections” and won’t really do the good for those unlike them – unless they (*we) take special care. Oakland has a great pivot story, which is still going… so tune in August 6th to learn!
Read More“It’s really good but where’s the consultation?!” tactical urbanism, social licence and opening minds
A Low Traffic Neighbourhood project in Onehunga, using tactical urbanism, is a theatre for some very familiar angst – but also some very unfamiliar progress.
Read MoreLow Traffic Neighbourhoods can, and should, benefit us all
We all want good street design, and varied transport options. So let’s make sure we are very deliberately building for all of us.
Read MoreGive it a whirl, let’s suck it and see!
Trying stuff out, seeing what works, giving things a whirl – it’s the best way to change streets cheaply, quickly and lightly. Urbanism wonks call it “tactical urbanism” (secret: it’s the same thing!). Here’s the great talk that inspired Braden’s post Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper.
Read MoreOn the frontlines of tactical urbanism: lighter, quicker, cheaper with Steven Burgess
“We shape our streets, and thereafter they shape us” – but then we can shape them back. And it needn’t be a huge, expensive, fraught undertaking. Tactical urbanism guru Steven Burgess has been in Aotearoa-NZ, rattling a few cages and opening eyes, and guest poster Braden went along.
Read MoreStreets for people (for a day)
World Carfree Day and PARK(ing) Day happened recently, a handy eye-opener of what we’re missing when we let motor vehicles dominate our lives and streets.
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