{"id":137713,"date":"2022-04-04T18:02:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T23:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/reclaiming-city-spaces-with-tactical-urbanism"},"modified":"2022-04-04T18:02:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T23:02:18","slug":"reclaiming-city-spaces-with-tactical-urbanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/reclaiming-city-spaces-with-tactical-urbanism","title":{"rendered":"Reclaiming City Spaces With \u201cTactical Urbanism\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/waiI9EQTdaw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcet.org\/shows\/broken-bread\/how-to-be-a-guerrilla-gardener\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">guerilla gardening<\/a> to pop-up parks, tactical urbanism is catching the world by storm. The growing movement is characterized by the temporary altering of city infrastructure through citizen-led initiatives. These efforts are inexpensive and intended to improve the functionality, safety, and enjoyability of neighborhoods and gathering places.<\/p>\n<p>At its core, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2012-03-02\/the-official-guide-to-tactical-urbanism\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tactical urbanism<\/a> is a commitment to community carried out by residents who care about the health of their cities. It was born out of frustrations with the slow and complex process of city-approved infrastructure improvements, and it\u2019s turned into a channel for activists to accelerate change in their communities.<\/p>\n<p><b>The Growing, Tactical Urbanism Movement<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The people who live, work, and socialize in a city are often the most in tune to its infrastructure needs. However, traditional methods of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/articles\/urban-planning\">urban planning<\/a> can leave citizens feeling disconnected from how changes are implemented in their own communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From guerilla gardening to pop-up parks, tactical urbanism is catching the world by storm. The growing movement is characterized by the temporary altering of city infrastructure through citizen-led initiatives. These efforts are inexpensive and intended to improve the functionality, safety, and enjoyability of neighborhoods and gathering places. At its core, tactical urbanism is a commitment [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}