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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"tactical urbanism"”.
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De-gentrifying the streetscape : reclaiming tactical urbanism for San Francisco's Tenderloin
San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood is often described in classic "skid row" terms as a neighborhood characterized by crime, prostitution, drugs, homelessness, seedy hotels, and rampant blight. It is described as 'hopeless' and 'lost', and a place to be avoided at all costs. In reality, the …
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Tactical urbanism, public policy reform, and 'innovation spotting' by government : from Park(ing) Day to San Francisco's parklet program
This thesis examines the prospects and impacts of tactical urbanism (TU). While tactical urbanism remains primarily a subcultural movement, it is beginning to gain traction in popular culture in traditionally politically liberal cities, and in some cases, with their respective city governments. …
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Street tactics
… see spatial growth and improvement. Enter tactical urbanism. Mike Lydon, one of its proponents, defines it as a "deliberate, phased approach to instigating change", where local, short-term solutions are found that manage expectations & risk while building social capital. This approach is …
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Mediating mobility at the school gate: interpreting London's School Street schemes
… measures marking an acceleration of state-led ‘tactical urbanism’ in London. However, despite a stated motivation for School Streets being to increase active travel to school, evidence for their effectiveness in changing travel behaviour lags their widespread adoption. Responding to this gap, …
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Re-imagining a child-centric spatial environment that promotes quality of life for children in Altantis (Witsand)
… vital to observe urban design theories such as tactical urbanism to ensure interventions are realistic and impactfulon communities
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ChalkTalk : a participatory design framework for designing resilient sustainable transportation infrastructures
… life studies, participatory democracy, and tactical urbanism are by nature methods of observation, ideation, and rapid prototyping and iterating respectively that can be used to adapt design thinking to the transportation sector. By using the ChalkTalk framework, designers, residents, and …
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Alternative Urbanism Between The Formal And Informal: Investigating The Transformative Potential Of Small Urban Interventions In Neoliberal Cairo
… in the literature under various titles such as tactical urbanism, temporary urbanism, or everyday urbanism. Although originally emerging informally, these urban practices have recently taken on a more mainstream character especially in European and North American cities after the global …
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Festival modernism : downtown plans & pedestrian malls, 1956-1974
… embrace pedestrian plazas, "complete streets," tactical urbanism, and "better blocks" as a strategy for economic revitalization. By coding the visual material of downtown plans published from the late 1950s through the early 1970s, this paper traces the evolution of critical motifs, themes, and …
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Urban Agriculture And Resiliency Of At-Risk Communities: Evaluation And Implementation At The University Of Minnesota Golf Course
Recent light on infrastructural shortcomings during the COVID-19 pandemic and civil uprising against racial disparity has shown signs of a nationwide paradigm shift in more than just politics. Cities, and more specifically, Minneapolis, grew out of a created dichotomy between material …
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Supporting Successful Community Street Paintings
This thesis explores the history and current practice of Intersection-Repair-style street paintings in Seattle, WA and Portland, OR. It assesses relationships between functions street paintings perform and reasons people want to paint, and suggests that the better these factors align, the greater …