PARK(ing) Day is the third Friday in September!

R Rawlings, Vestre Ltd, discusses how COVID-19 has acted as a catalyst for transforming urban spaces, and why introducing parklets could be the way forward

While glimmers of hope about an impending vaccine glimmer in the future, the coronavirus still rages on. The toll the pandemic has taken on people’s lives and health will be difficult to measure for a long time coming, but there is no question that our livelihoods and norms have changed. One hopeful outcome has been...

Designers, artists and contractors have sprung into action to help restaurants and to spark ideas about what public space could look like.

After a long delay to start the program, the City of Seattle announced an even longer extension for restaurants and businesses to continue using public spaces for outdoor dining and retail. Seattle…

The mayor had been under pressure from such civic groups as City Rise, which has been calling for repurposing roadways for retail.

Schemes to reclaim city streets for pedestrians are flourishing during the Covid-19 pandemic

Parking is usually a hot-button issue in crowded cities. But restaurants are taking over spaces once reserved for cars, and to the surprise of owners, few are complaining.

In three short months 10 vacant schoolyards and parking lots in Portland have been transformed into miniature neighborhoods. These “traffic gardens” were created to give kids and families a place Read More »

“We’re looking at that [year-round],” Hizzoner said at his Monday presser.

Berkeley is moving fast to expand outdoor dining

“This could be the best block party in the history of New York, but if we don’t get this right in the next three months, there will be a complete collapse of the tax base of the city,&#…

You might be seeing parking space–sized seating areas pop up outside of restaurants, cafes, and more all over the city.