SLOW Tactical Urbanists Ahead

https://twitter.com/MikeLydon/status/987373241672052742

New Book On DIY Urbanism (Oxford University Press)

The Help-Yourself City

Legitimacy and Inequality in DIY Urbanism

Gordon C.C. Douglas

• Combines cultural and urban sociology with urban planning, policy, and design scholarship
• Includes more than 100 interviews with do-it-yourself urban designers, planning and design professionals, and community members in 17 cities
• Appraises the under-studied and widely-celebrated trend of DIY urbanism to highlight the implications for urban planning, community development, and how everyday people engage with urban policy and urban space itself

With Love From Mexico City (DF)

With Love From Dallas (again)

Activists draw attention to safety with 
bike lanes made of flowerpots, toilet plungers
http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/national/269692573-story

Pop-Up Bike Network Leads to Permanent Change

https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/macon-pop-up-bike-network-permanent-bike-lanes

Victim blaming by Boston Mayor gets the answer it deserves

http://usa.streetsblog.org/2017/05/22/after-bostons-mayor-blames-crash-victims-pop-up-comics-push-for-better-bike-lanes/

Transformation Dept. in NYC strikes again with Tulips

Source: https://twitter.com/NYC_DOTr/status/850409882742337536
Article: http://nyc.streetsblog.org/2017/04/07/cones-to-the-rescue-safer-turns-at-first-ave-and-9th-street/

With Love From Wichita, KS

Source:
http://ksn.com/2017/02/24/mysterious-plungers-pop-up-along-wichita-bike-lane/
Update: http://www.kansas.com/news/local/article137642098.html
Success!!

Update May 2917: Plunger Bike Lanes For All:
http://www.bicycling.com/node/2106091?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=Social&utm_term=902251594&utm_campaign=Bicycling

DIY Great Ideas Now

https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2017/02/16/great-idea-tactical-urbanism

DIY Tactical Urbanism Manuals

Urban Repair Squad Guide (2005)
http://web.net/~lukmar/UrbanRepairSquadManual.pdf

NEW The Tactical Urbanist’s Guide to Materials and Design 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xrol4x3m0hv7el5/TU-Guide_To_Materials_And_Design_V1.0_sm.pdf?dl=0

Very cool 3D Zebra Crossing (India)

Source: http://www.scoopwhoop.com/3D-Zebra-Crossing-Designed-By-Gujarat-Women/

With Love From Portland

Source: http://bikeportland.org/2016/02/11/a-closer-look-at-the-better-broadway-pop-up-protected-bikeway-174752

The Quick Fix (NYC)

DIY Bike Lanes New York (1990s)

With Flowers From Boston

SEPTEMBER 09, 2015 Inspired by a book about “tactical urbanism” and what he called the city’s slow response to making certain roadway improvements, cyclist Jonathan Fertig took matters into his own hands and constructed a separated bike lane along one of Boston’s most dangerous thoroughfares using house plants and orange traffic cones. Now he’s looking to expand the project, and is raising money online to create additional improvised “flower lanes” that he says will keep cyclists and pedestrians safe from cars traveling along the busy corridor. On Sunday, Fertig, who says he commutes daily from his home in Dorchester to Cambridge, placed six potted plants and cones on a portion of Massachusetts Avenue near the Beacon Street intersection, the site of a fatal crash in August that claimed the life of endocrine surgeon Anita Kurmann. “I went to Home Depot, bought the mums that were on sale for $6, and then just put them down and walked away,” Fertig said. http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/09/09/cyclist-places-potted-plants-mass-ave-create-temporary-bike-lane-plans-install-more/rhH0HV94d1mpImKPy8vfJO/story.html

With Love From Calgary

http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/frustrated-communities-try-to-slow-down-speeding-drivers-themselves

Unsafe bike lane disclaimer

Source: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/bike-activists-take-guerilla-action-by-painting-unsafe-cycle-lane-on-sydney-roads-20150618-ghqtue.html

Before and After on the HWY (2001)

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2015/02/11/guerrilla_public_service_on_99_invisible_richard_ankrom_replaced_a_los_angeles.html

Traffic sign hacking (LA)

http://www.laweekly.com/news/la-traffic-sign-is-hacked-to-say-read-a-f-ing-book-photos-5331670

Innovative Sidewalks in Bogota, Colombia

Cebras por la Vida México en Acción from CAD Productions on Vimeo.