15th PRIF Community of Practice: Guide to Mobility for Livable Pacific Cities Webinar Series,3/9: Tactical Urbanism-Rapid Street Transformation
The webinar is the 3rd of a nine-part series to disseminate transformative strategies outlined in the World Bank's upcoming flagship report, "Guide to Mobility for Livable Pacific Cities." The event will focus on ‘tactical urbanism’ in street transformations. Tactical urbanism is a design methodology and engagement strategy. It implements temporary ‘tactical demonstrations’ and ‘trial interventions’ to test living versions of designs with communities in real-time, focused on delivering streets that put people first, making them safer and more livable. Whereas traditional infrastructure development in the Pacific requires large capital investments and multiple years for planning, design and implementation, tactical urbanism can deliver infrastructure improvements in weeks, at minimal costs and using materials available at local hardware stores. Proposed measures to be trialled using this method include pedestrian crossings, traffic calming, intersection narrowing, plazas and parklets, footpaths and bicycle paths.
