This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. On Monday, San Francisco rolled out a website meant to help ...

Is the dawn of “Tactical Urbanism” upon us? This approach to reshaping urban environments, which focuses on small-scale interventions, is a rising trend in urban environments across the U.S. Now six ...

Fittingly, tactical urbanism has evolved rapidly in the last decade. The planning approach, which deploys quick, light-touch changes to show ways street design can be improved, began as a form of ...

Steps taken to improve the urban environment— otherwise known as tactical urbanism—have been around for a while. Going by the name guerrilla urbanism, city repair, DIY urbanism, hands-on urbanism, ...

A view of the mural painted outside Waynesboro High School last year. Photo by Chris Graham. The Safe Routes to School program, part of the Central Shenandoah Valley Office on Youth, is partnering ...

Sarah Newstok waves at a honking car near her home in Memphis, Tenn. on Monday, April 14, 2014. The mother of three installed buckets with orange safety flags at a busy intersection of her ...

Across the country, people—and cities—are reinventing public spaces with temporary, low-cost projects. Building anything new in a city takes a long time. There are zoning rules, permits, public ...

The Department of Public Works, Parks & Streets (DPW) is looking for input from the community regarding a Jefferson Avenue Streetscape Project. This “tactical urbanism” approach could lead to great ...

The Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment presents a dialogue with Mike Lydon, Tactical Urbanism as Iterative City Building Through Community Engagement. To remain competitive, cities must ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The city painted a crosswalk and installed tennis-ball green signs, but the cars just kept on zooming through. But rather than wave a white flag, Sarah Newstok grabbed an orange one ...