TACTICAL URBANISM
Collection by URBAN ACTION
Guerrilla gardening. Pavement-to-parks. Open streets. These are all urban interventions of a sort – quick, often temporary, cheap projects that aim to make a small part of a city more lively or enjoyable. These types of projects have grown in popularity in recent years, and they even have a new name: tactical urbanism, as in tactics used to improve the urban environment. These tactics tend to be replicable across cities, and in certain instances have become worldwide phenomena.
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In Public Space We Trust
BASE is a project by ARCI Milano, Avanzi, esterni, h+, Make a Cube³: an experiment in innovation and cultural contamination, exploring Art, Creativity, Enterprise, Technology and Welfare across 6000m²...
Hanging Restaurant, Belgium
50 meters above ground dining event arranged by a professional event arranger of Benji Fun company. It provides seating for 22 complete w...
Rotterdam Collective Creates Modular Mobile Skatepark
Rotterdam-based Jira Jira have created a mobile skatepark of around 9 obstacles which can be wheeled from location to location.
Art und Weise
Kunstraum & Heilbar Leinestr.48 12049 Berlin
slow ottawa on Twitter
“Non-Stop Forest by @penoyreprasad @TreesforCities: http://t.co/vUiHslQ4sb #tacticalurbanism: https://t.co/toLRfvT8Qj”
BenchesCollective Turns Streets Into A Giant Outdoor Café
Every first Sunday of the month, the BankjesCollectief (BenchesCollective) turns the streets of Amsterdam into the 'largest' outdoor café in the world. The owners of the benches decide what they offer and the visitors determine the value afterwards. Of course, the offerings can be food and drinks, but also activities like salsa classes, knitting workshops, and (clothing) swap sessions.
City creates Pop-up Park in Yarraville
slow ottawa on Twitter
“Via @JSadikKhan: Street to plaza on 9th Av, NYC. https://t.co/KmnSoVcC8y … #completestreets #VisionZero #walkable”
porchetta shipping container kiosk by noiseux + sasseville
porchetta shipping container kiosk CT Notes: Maybe we do this instead of a "bricks and mortar" cheese shop, when we are ready for that step!
Started from the Bottom: Boston Experiments with Parklets as Place-making Strategy
The city of Boston has been the stage for a long history of experiments with public space. Most notably, the Boston Common is the oldest public park in the country – and perhaps the first public urban park in the world. Originally a shared cow pasture until overgrazing led to a real-life example...
Amazing Pallet Skate on Tram Rails
Music: Teapot Industries - Like to Be Alone, Pt. 2(https://www.youtube.com/user/TeapotOfficial/videos)The space between the tram tracks in Bratislava is 435 ...