Tactical Urbanism Short-term Action for Long-term Change
In the twenty-first century, cities worldwide must respond to a growing and diverse population, ever-shifting economic conditions, new technologies, and a changing climate. Short-term, community-based projects—from pop-up parks to open streets initiatives
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Short-term Action for Long-term Change
MIKE LYDON & ANTHONY GARCIA FOREWORD BY ANDRÉS DUANY
Mike Lydon and Anthony Garcia
Washington | Covelo | London
Copyright © 2015 The Streets Plans Collaborative, Inc.
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2014948288
Photo on page iii: Chair Bombs by Aurash Khawarzad
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Keywords: Bouquinistes, Build a Better Block, Ciclovía, design thinking, DIY urbanism, food trucks, guerilla urbanism, guerilla wayfinding, intersection repair, mobile services, New Urbanism, Park(ing) Day, open streets, parklet, Pavement to Plazas, play streets, radical connectivity, temporary intervention, traffic calming, urban hacking, Walk [Your City]
TO OUR GRANDFATHERS, William Dunham and Carlos Tepedino
CONTENTS
Foreword by Andrés Duany Preface Acknowledgments
xi xiii xxiii 1
01
Disturbing the Order of Things
02
Inspirations and Antecedents of Tactical Urbanism
25
03
The Next American City and the Rise of Tactical Urbanism
63
04
Of Cities and Citizens: Five Tactical Urbanism Stories
89
05
A Tactical Urbanism How-To
173
06
Conclusion: Go Out and Use This Book!
209
Notes
213
FOREWORD A N D R É S D UA N Y
As the dismal prospects of the twenty-first century gradually become clear, it also becomes clear that some of the most promising ideas about cities are coalescing as Tactical Urbanism. The book that proves this is in your hands; it remains only to contextualize my claim. Two wholly new urbanisms have emerged to engage the circumstances of the twenty-first century: Tactical and XL (or Extra Large). This pairing shows that Rem Koolhaas’s prescient formulation of S, M, L, and XL projects is incomplete. It is missing the XS: the Extra Small category represented by Tactical Urbanism. The architectural world is currently fascinated by the Extra Large (in fact, the March 2014 Architectural Record, arriving the very week I am writing this, is dedicated to the XL category). The XL are projects such as regional shopping malls, so immense and complex that they subsume urbanism. They are presumed to intensify urban life. They certainly provide an unprecedented opportunity for iconic architecture, and also the opportunity for the most spectacular failures. But even the iconic successes of XL have bleak prospects. Most of the projects are cynical panderings to the insecurities of Asian and Middle Eastern nouveaux riches. As James Kunstler argues, they have no future socially, ecologically, economically, or politically. The XLs are indeed magnificent, but they are like dinosaurs: Eac
