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Meeting Bowls Dropped Into Times Square
Meeting Bowls. Photo courtesy of the Times Square Alliance Many of the world’s great public spaces may be programmed in many different ways, to serve many different purposes. While bicycling through...
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Miami’s Grand Central Park Shapes Up
The development of Miami’s Grand Central Park is a wonderful example of Tactical Urbanism. More specifically, the park illuminates an increasingly popular tactic we call Site Pre-vitalization. The...
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Pattern Watch: Parklets Arrive in Long Beach
Image Credit: Joe Linton The movement to replace curbside parking with curbside seating has arrived in Long Beach, California. The first of three ‘parklets‘ is now open in front of Lola’s, a Mexican...
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The Open Streets Project: Opening Streets to People, Sharing Resources,...
The Street Plans Collaborative (full disclosure, my planning firm) and the Alliance for Biking & Walking has officially launched The Open Streets Project, which includes an open source website...
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Catching up to 1970
Pop-up open space in San Francisco, 1970 Most urbanists haven’t heard of Bonnie Ora Sherk. Most people capitalizing off of the resurgence of pop-up architecture probably haven’t heard of her either,...
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Open publication – Free publishing – More street plans
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Pavement to Plaza Program Arrives in Los Angeles
Los Angeles undertakes its own Pavement to Plaza effort. Credit: flickr user Gelatobaby As popularized in New York City and San Francisco, Los Angeles is now transforming excess vehicular space into...
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Partizaning: Participatory Urban Replanning from Moscow
The Residence – a former container that functions as a mobile, street art studio for Partizans. ‘Partizaning‘ is a word being popularized by a group of artists and art historians in Moscow, Russia who...
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Open Walls Baltimore Follows Miami and Atlanta, Uses Street Art as Tactic for...
Wynwood Walls. Image: Mike Lydon As our readers know, Pattern Cities documents how ideas spread from one city to the next. In this post, we turn our attention to the use of street art as a tactic for...
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You’re Invited: Tactical Urbanism Salon – Philly
Join Next American City, The Street Plans Collaborative, and Philly Works at the Storefront for Urban Innovation for the Tactical Urbanism Salon - Philly. Space is limited for this free event, so if...
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San Francisco Hits Back, Introduces the ‘Parkmobile’
Yerba Buena's Latest Public Space Amenity. Credit: Michelle Terris / The Chronicle When it comes to tactical public space innovation, it’s hard to beat the bi-coastal battle that continues to play out...
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