Interim Strategies and Metrics to Support Long-Term Change

Workshop development for the Global Designing Cities’ workshops focusing on interim street interventions.

Changing decades of embedded practice in urban street design can be challenging. Limited funding, regulatory restrictions, and a lack of proven local precedents can lead to hesitation in the face of innovative design solutions. Interim design strategies–such as tapping into the low-cost power of paint, flexi-posts, and planters–are a method to enable faster change. Cities can use quick-build tools and tactics to improve their streets and public spaces in the near-term.

This training, based on national and international experiences, offers examples of how cities can apply interim design strategies to improve streets in the short term, and how these projects support experimentation and iteration, enabling longer-term change.”

For this session, an interactive game was created to better understand the actions and challenges in the process of implementing, and measuring the effectiveness of temporary street interventions. The audience was composed mainly by city governments.