This Better Block temporary arrangement of potted plants in South Dallas helped alert people to the benefits of narrowing the pavement and making the roadways more accommodating to pedestrians.
Nothing is more important than listening – and really hearing – the voices of concern and protest. But it’s not enough. Somebody at some point has to turn the to-do list into action steps.
Small-scale, incremental interventions in cities will be explored in the first Tactical Urbanism Salon, scheduled for this Saturday in Long Island City, Queens.
It’s now the age of bang-for-the-buck pragmatics, where solutions to any one problem will be deemed insufficient if they don’t also offer some greater, comprehensive value.
