Tactical Urbanism
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MassDOT Announces $1 Million in Grants for Pandemic ‘Shared Streets and Spaces’
The first round of grant funding will create safer walking routes to schools in Chelsea, a new bus lane in Somerville, and new protected on-street pathways in Lowell.
July 23, 2020
Baker Admin. Launches $5M ‘Shared Streets and Spaces Emergency Grant Program’
The Commonwealth is launching a new $5 million grant program to create safer walking and biking routes with more room for physical distancing as “stay at home” orders ease this spring and summer.
June 11, 2020
Cambridge (Finally) Announces Citywide Shared Streets Network to Facilitate Safe Physical Distancing
The conceptual network would extend "all the way from Fresh Pond and Danehy Park, through Harvard Square and down towards Kendall Square... with another piece running down from Central Square to the river along Magazine Street."
May 28, 2020
Plans for Boston’s ‘Healthy Streets’ Initiative Expected Later This Week
On Tuesday, the City of Boston briefly published a new website with tentative plans for its "healthy streets" initiative, which would make tactical changes to city streets to provide more room for safe physical distancing among pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit riders.
May 26, 2020
Check Out Somerville’s Citywide ‘COVID-19 Mobility Strategy’
The City of Somerville has announced a citywide mobility strategy to provide safer walking and biking routes with more room for physical distancing as "stay at home" orders ease this spring and summer.
May 24, 2020
Car-Free State Street Is A Possibility In City Reconstruction Project
On Thursday, planners and engineers from the City of Boston installed a pop-up park on State Street in downtown Boston to solicit ideas and feedback from passerby about a planned reconstruction project that would completely rebuild the street between the Old State House and the Rose Kennedy Greenway.
October 31, 2019
Photos: It’s Park(ing) and Climate Strike Day
And we've got another new Orange Line train.
September 20, 2019
Eyes On the Street: Chinatown’s New Phillips Square Plaza
A little-used turning lane on Harrison Street in Chinatown is on the verge of being reclaimed as public space as the city puts the finishing touches on a new plaza in Phillips Square.
August 29, 2019
CultureHouse in Kendall Square Brings Tactical Urbanism Indoors
Allie Girouard and Aaron Greiner are the co-founders of CultureHouse, a self-described "urban design test kitchen" that has secured a temporary lease at 500 Kendall Street.
August 16, 2019
