Tactical urbanism aims to test designs, ideas, and changes to your neighbourhood to improve community connection, safety, health, equity, accessibility, and happiness. In this process, it offers a variety of benefits on multiple levels:
- Easy and quick for residents to form idea to action
- Enables the build out of low cost solutions to improve quality of life
- Allows for testing and adapting a solution to allow for future investments
- Facilitates community building by bringing together groups of residents to address a local need
- A catalyst of long-term change
Professor Steve Millington from the Institute of Place Management at Manchester Metropolitan University provides an introduction to tactical urbanism in the video below. He reiterates these benefits with the example of changes to traffic and social spaces brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic: