A Forest on the Freeway: "Innerbelt National Forest" Swaps Concrete for Community

What do you do with an old freeway in the heart of your city that never should have been built? In Akron, it’s become an experimental pop-up park that is stitching the city back together.

Akron, Top StoryKailey SherrickNovember 27, 2018public space, Tactical Urbanism, pop-up

Getting Past "We Can't": Amanda Popken and John Simmerman on Tactical Urbanism

Strong Towns’s Aubrey Byron interviews John Simmerman and Amanda Popken, who presented on placemaking and tactical urbanism at our recent North Texas Regional Gathering.

Byron, Bikeability, Taking Action, Top StoryAubrey ByronOctober 18, 2018Tactical Urbanism, pop-up, parklet, North Texas Gathering

When should you use behavioral science to make pedestrians safer, and when should you use pavement?

Design that provides a little psychological nudge can be an inexpensive, easily-implemented way to address problems like pedestrian fatalities. But sometimes what we need is good, old-fashioned concrete.

Faith Communities Can Help Build Vibrant Neighborhoods

Communities of faith stand in an important position to support vibrant, walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods; and in recent years, some have stepped up to the challenge at a variety of different scales.

Cultivate Collaborative is Putting Strong Towns Principles into Action

We can’t continue business as usual. It’s time for a different approach.

Why I Went to the Strong Towns Summit

If America's dysfunctional approach to transportation is going to be solved, it's going to have to be solved in places that look like Tulsa.

Using Tactical Urbanism to Promote Bikeability

Mike Lydon of Street Plans Collaborative discusses cheap, tactical ways to improve bike-friendliness in towns big and small.

Tactical Urbanism, Top Story, #SlowtheCars, #StrongCitizens, BikeabilityRachel QuednauOctober 19, 2016Tactical Urbanism

Language Shapes Policy

Language bias, are we better off with transportation bill gridlock?, and an Iowa transportation planner gets tactical.

You can break any law you want....

You can break any law you want if you wear an orange vest.

Show 217: Street Plans Collaborative at CNU 23

CNU, PodcastCharles MarohnApril 29, 2015Mike Lydon, Tactical Urbanism, San Francisco, Miami

Best of Blog: Good Enough Urbanism

Over the years I've found something I think people who love walkable, human-oriented places collectively struggle with: we want to get the *very best* urban design codified and implemented in our cities. This is of course the right end-goal, but it hurts us by limiting our ability to productively deal with overwhelming quantity of low-quality, underperforming space in the city.