This series of blog posts describes planned activities for the General Plan Update process and provides a summary of all events held for each type of activity. For a full overview, please see the Community Engagement Plan.
Activity Description
A tactical urbanism project is a do-it-yourself, low-cost installation that demonstrates a temporary change to a public space. The purpose is to test an intervention or change in the environment and let the community experience it before making a permanent change. One of the most well-known examples is NYC’s Times Square. Temporary street closures and inexpensive paint treatments and beach chairs led to permanent changes during its ‘pavement to plaza’ transformation.
As in the case of Times Square, if interventions are found to be successful, a community can decide to make the change permanent. Whether tactical urbanism projects are successful depends on the people who use these spaces in their day-to-day activities sharing ideas about how to improve places to benefit all.
A project will be installed as part of a pop-up event or community workshop to showcase design concepts that will be considered during the GPU. The project could include changes to road layouts, parklets (on-street parking spaces converted into small parks or seating areas), cultural or art interventions, smart city technologies, or innovative sustainability strategies.
Examples of Tactical Urbanism Projects in the Los Angeles Region
Tactical urbanism projects are common in the Los Angeles region. You may likely have already seen or interacted with them. Below are just a few examples of projects in and around Culver City. Click on each photo to read about the temporary changes in each community.
Ready to learn more about tactical urbanism?
The following resources provide more ideas, images, and case studies of do-it-yourself, low-cost, and temporary interventions around the world: