Tactical Urbanism

WE will have two presentations on “tactical Urbanism”, by Easthampton City Planner Jessica Allen, and Lisa DePiano; permaculture designer, and Mobile Design Lab instructor (http://mobiledesignlab.org). We will have a brainstorming session afterward around the possibility of creating a tactical urbanism project in Easthampton.

“Tactical urbanism uses the city as a site of experimentation, deploying pop-up parks, vacant retail reuse, or unsanctioned street furniture as way to reprogram the urban realm. The practice traditionally takes an activist position in relationship to environmental, political, cultural and economic factors. However, as the practice is increasingly being absorbed into mainstream thinking on cities, it is critical that we look closely at both the underlying assumptions and resulting effects.”

~Mimi Zieger