Social Sustainability
Tactical Urbanism
Low-cost, temporary interventions — parklets, pop-up bike lanes, plaza conversions — that test and catalyse lasting urban change.
Definition
Tactical urbanism is the use of short-term, low-cost, scalable interventions to improve neighbourhoods and catalyse long-term change: converting parking spaces into parklets, painting pop-up cycle lanes, pedestrianising streets with planters and paint before rebuilding them in concrete. Popularised by Lydon and Garcia's Tactical Urbanism manuals, it ranges from citizen-led "guerrilla" actions to city-sanctioned pilots, and proved its worth during COVID-19 when cities reallocated street space at unprecedented speed.
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