![]() ![]() It’s a program where people apply for funding and technical assistance to create bike lanes, crosswalks, and other transportation improvements. In Miami-Dade County, we’ve developed a program in partnership with the Department of Transportation and Public Works called the Quick Build Program. ![]() That’s the disruptive power of tactical urbanism. We like to say that if they had hired an architect first and spent a million dollars to do a study, we would still be talking about the renderings rather than how great it is to be in the space. They’ve collected figures on retail sales, which improved by 30%, and safety improved also. Since then, Times Square has been closed to traffic. Times Square, 2009, testing a traffic-free area They intended to do a weekend-long test, but it was so successful that it remained closed. It has four basic qualities: It’s inexpensive to carry out, it uses temporary materials that can either be removed or don’t last for ten years, it’s based on existing plans-which differentiates us from guerilla urbanism-and it involves citizens in the creation of the infrastructure.Ī high-profile example of this took place in Times Square on a Memorial Day Weekend, where the city closed the square using their own internal traffic cones and bollards and set up 1,000 chairs bought from K Mart. Tactical Urbanism is one of the intellectual descendants of New Urbanism. New Urbanism promotes traditional, compact, walkable urbanism as an obvious alternative. My philosophical background is as a New Urbanist, which is all about acknowledging that the suburban sprawl model of developing cities is one of the major causes of social, environmental, and economic problems in our society. Let’s start by talking about the work you do. Here, he speaks with architectural conservator Rosa Lowinger of RLA Conservation of Art + Architecture.Ĭongratulations on winning the CINTAS prize. A part-time adjunct faculty member in the University of Miami School of Architecture, García is the former chair of the Green Mobility Network, the largest bicycle-pedestrian advocacy organization in South Florida, and founder of the Ludlam Trail project. They are the co-authors of Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change (Island Press, 2015). With his Street Plans Collaborative partner Mike Lydon, Garcia was awarded the 2017 Seaside Prize for leadership in contemporary urban development and education. As a writer and advocate, Tony advocates for an urbanism centered around walkability, public transit, and bicycle infrastructure. Winner of the 2017 CINTAS Prize in Architecture & Design, Anthony Garcia is a principal of Street Plans Collaborative, an architectural practice that specializes in transportation and open space planning, with offices in Brooklyn and Miami. Vintage postcard of a Miami Beach bungalow, similar to the ones in Little Havana ![]()
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