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into tiny public parks. All of these
activities can be accomplished with
or without the support of public officials, but to ensure their desired
positive effect, there must always be
community buy-in.
" Often there are event permits that
are open and vague enough to get a
lawful temporary street closure... but
if you're moving forward without
those, most informed activists understand the risk is minor enough that
they're willing to possibly get arrested
to make a point, " Lydon says. " It really is quite rare for that to happen -
not to say [city officials] don't get upset, but they tend to recognize there is
often a lot of public support for these
projects and that lessens the pressure
to crack down.... Whether you're doing a project from a sanctioned or unsanctioned position, think about who
is around the project - the property
owners, schools, others in the neighborhood. Is it a desired change? Will
people support it? Is it something
they'll advocate for? It's not hard to
get a pretty good handle on the pulse
of how a neighborhood feels about
the possibility of making change. "
Planning for the Future
Ultimately, Lydon envisions tactical urbanism as a mechanism to bring community members into the planning process in a more active capacity. He says
most folks who would be involved in urban improvement projects - city commissioners, developers, park and recreation professionals, citizens, planners
and others - are all approaching those
endeavors from the common vantage of
improving the public space. " We're just
on the cusp of what's possible, " says Lydon. " [Tactical urbanism] is about how
can citizens take more of a leadership
role with the resources at hand, design
projects they want and then steward it

moving forward. It's a participatory
way of making change while taking
some of the burden off cities, working
to build social capital at the neighborhood level.... We always need that kind
of activity to push things forward. "

To learn more about tactical urbanism and the Street Plans Collaborative, go to www.streetplans.org.
Samantha Bartram is the Associate Editor
of Parks & Recreation Magazine (sbartram@
nrpa.org).

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