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Urban Interventions: A Tactical Urbanism How-To
Event Details
Time: February 8, 2014 from 3pm to 4:30pm
Location: The Bourse Co-Working Loft
Street: 839 Chapel Street
City/Town: New Haven, CT
Website or Map: http://www.boursenewhaven.com…
Phone: (860) 539-8061
Event Type: distinguished, speaker, series
Organized By: Julie Flynn, Robert Orr
Latest Activity: Feb 7, 2014
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Event Description
Please Join us for Urban Interventions, a free Tactical Urbanism Workshop on Saturday, February 8th at 3:00PM at the Bourse Co-Working Loft in Downtown New Haven.
How can an inexpensive, short-term project create long-term societal change? Guerilla Wayfinding, Parklets, DIY Crosswalks – these are all examples of an exciting trend in urban placemaking commonly referred to as Tactical Urbanism. This talk will be exceptionally unique. Our two speakers represent the public view from the street AND and the regulatory view from inside city hall: Bottom up AND top down interventions.
The Speakers:
Mike Lydon, Principal of The Street Plans Collaborative, will lead an overview alongside Dan Bartman, Senior Planner at the City of Somerville. The overview of Tactical Urbanism will equip attendees with an understanding of how to plan, fund, and implement projects. Information about how the City of Somerville, and others, have integrated Tactical Urbanism into the municipal project delivery process will also be provided.
Join us to learn about how other communities have used Tactical Urbanism to bring about meaningful change in their cities and towns, and to inspire the practice in the Elm City.
We encourage all attendees to review the Tactical Urbanism Guidebook (Volume I and Volume II) before attending. This event is free and open to all.
Speaker Bios
Dan Bartman
Dan Bartman, Senior Planner at the City of Somerville, and co-Author of "Tactical Urbanism", addressed both top-down and bottom-up tactical interventions. Dan’s talk will highlight crowd-funding (as well as crowd-lending and crowd-investing) as a key tool for implementing urban interventions on any scale.
Mike Lydon
Mike Lydon is a Principal of The Street Plans Collaborative, and an internationally recognized planner, writer, and advocate for livable cities. Mike collaborated with Andres Duany and Jeff Speck in writing The Smart Growth Manual, published by McGraw-Hill in 2009. Mike is also the creator and primary author of the The Open Streets Project and Tactical Urbanism: Short-Term Action, Long-Term Change Vol.1 and Vol.2. Mike is also currently writing a full-length book about Tactical Urbanism, to be published by Island Press in the spring/summer of 2014.
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Comment by Julie Flynn on January 30, 2014 at 12:04pm
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This is great, Lee, thanks for sharing!
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Comment by Lee Cruz on January 30, 2014 at 6:41am
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Looking forward to this presentation and to meeting other like-minded folks from around New Haven. Here is an example of one action by a group of residents in one New Haven neighborhood:
http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/road_wi...
To see the Chatham Square Neighborhood traffic study where these and main other great streetscape changes are shown go to www.chathamsquare.ning.com and click on the link under "who we are and what we do".
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