New shared streets and plazas are popping up across Boston’s reinvigorated downtown pedestrian zone. Join us for a tour of tactical plazas using paint, planters, moveable seating and other creative elements, and check out others that have jumped from tactical deployment to permanent reconstruction with planted trees and pavers. We’ll meet stakeholders in Chinatown that helped push the City of Boston to deploy a temporary plaza, and tour public art installations that tell the story of neighborhood identity while adapting to new street design. We’ll also discuss maintenance challenges and sample different types of iterative design for public spaces on streets.

Click here to see the detailed map and route.

Speakers

• Jacob Wessel; BTD

Mode

• Walking; Standing; Intensive walking. Brief stops every half hour with seating. Mostly on sidewalk or on streets with pavers. Some surfaces may be uneven