During the COVID-19 pandemic, many parklets have been deployed onto kerbside carparking spaces throughout Melbourne, Australia, by street-fronting hospitality businesses, to provide socially-dista...

By John Bela, ASLA On a clear fall day in 2005, a group of friends and collaborators from the art collective Rebar commandeered an 8-foot-wide by 20-foot-long metered parking space in downtown San …

By early 2020, San Francisco had created 70 parklets in every corner of the city, and the city’s parklet program had become a model around the world.

Parklets that became commonplace during the pandemic could become permanent fixtures on revitalized Main Streets across the state.

Outdoor dining and slow streets programs are chipping away at Southern California’s deference to cars.

COVID-19 is helping parklets mushroom in Helsinki and other Finnish cities, ushering a quiet revolution in street space distribution.

The community boards are poised to take a bite out of Mayor de Blasio’s COVID streeteries.

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, streets have become an integral part of our public health infrastructure—they’re spaces to walk, exercise, play...

Yelp data shows greater consumer interest at restaurants on pedestrian-friendly “slow streets" that limited vehicle traffic during the pandemic.

As a popular dining destination faces city orders to rebuild a costly outdoor dining setup, advocates call for a clearer plan for opening up streets.

Communities shouldn’t give back the street space that they reclaimed during the pandemic.

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.