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PLACEMAKERS<br />
The Shell Oyster Bar, Kosta’s<br />
and the Bahn Thai restaurants will<br />
remain, a reminder that the best<br />
result of tactical urbanism is space for<br />
longtime local residents and businesses<br />
to thrive alongside new innovations.<br />
Best of all, tactical urbanism does not<br />
require a huge investment to begin.<br />
“Give people a vision that showcases<br />
the possibilities of a place,” King says.<br />
“This could be temporary bike lanes<br />
or street closings, a pop-up concert or<br />
movable street trees. Even something<br />
as simple as chalk drawings that<br />
highlight possible boundaries or<br />
wayfinding tools—it just shows people<br />
things that are possible.”<br />
It all comes down to highlighting<br />
the inherent qualities that define<br />
a community and helping people<br />
discover what they can accomplish.<br />
“The most effective aspects of the<br />
grassroots projects are that they<br />
build community,” Leavins says. “When<br />
a neighborhood can organize and come<br />
to an agreement on an improvement,<br />
it becomes easier for local governments<br />
to help make it permanent, because<br />
there is shared vision.”<br />
And once people start to visualize<br />
the possible, imagining the impossible<br />
starts to seem, well, inevitable.<br />
Dover Kohl & Partners<br />
doverkohl.com<br />
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