Need a way to brighten a blah block and add whimsy to a dark sidewalk? The Chandelier Tree in Los Angeles has become a local landmark for the dozens of lighting fixtures ensconced in a sycamore. With Listening Booth, we simply have somebody sit and listens to anybody who wanted to talk." - Jim Walker, founder and director of the Big Car Collaborativeġ1.
But, instead, the artist draws a portrait of a friend from the description. With Forensic Friends, people stopped by our artists on the street and described a friend like you would if you were doing a forensic sketch of a criminal. With our As You Wish project, our artists made versions of people’s wishes with cheap materials we had on hand. "Share your art with people in small ways. Set up a small, interactive community art project on your corner. By commissioning artists to create striking bike racks and railing, the city gets more exciting, eye-catching infrastructure.ġ0. Providence, Rhode Island, turned everyday urban hardware such as fences and trash cans into colorful creations with the help of a local nonprofit, The Steel Yard. If there isn’t money in the municipal budget for murals or street art, there’s still creative ways to beautify the streets. I am talking about old poop, as opposed to ambushing another dog’s poop-in-progress." - Michael Bierut, partner, Pentagramĩ. "I have the habit of trying to pick up someone else’s dog’s poop every time I pick up my own.
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Many cities give away free trees, have planting services, or require tree planting permits, so check your local rules before you start digging.Ĩ. Shade, serenity, sustainability- trees add so much to the urban landscape and ask so little. Small businesses can help make a difference by placing some DIY rackspace out front to make the parking situation more bearable. While artful racks and bikeshare stations are sprouting up everywhere, popular roadways and sidewalks can still become overcrowded with riders angling to anchor a U-Lock. Once you start snapping pictures of everyday life there’s no telling what you’ll find or who you’ll meet.Ħ. Share the beauty of your surroundings, whether it’s through an Instagram hashtag or a personal photo project. thanks for all the inspiration, Bill - #GOATĪ photo posted by Anthony Danielle on at 10:37am PDTĥ. I was lucky enough to get this photograph of #BillCunningham on the street in 2012. Inspired by the wider Little Free Libraries movement, it’s creating a real-life literary community on city streets. In Dallas, the Little Free Libraries/Libros Libres project helped construct and decorate makeshift shelves positioned across the community, part of a wider community literacy project. Libraries may change and evolve, but the pleasure and joy of reading a book remains. Here are bunch of examples we once catalogued in New York City." - Mike Lydon, The Street Plans CollaborativeĤ. There is an urban seating deficit the world over and some of my favorite cities are those where people frequently build their own street seats. "One small thing a person can do for your city is build an attractive bench and place it where it's needed. It will not only alleviate flooding on your street, it will filter and clean the water on its way back underground. Okay, there’s gonna be a ton of regional slang to fight through here: You know that little sliver of property between the sidewalk and the curb? Whatever you call it, replace whatever’s there with a stormwater garden that allows water to naturally percolate into the ground. Check out Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Santa Monica for more examples.Ģ. Between promoting community pride and increasing pedestrian visibility and safety, it’s a quick, colorful step forward. Instead of wiping them away, the city made them a permanent part of the landscape, and even appropriated the idea, setting up a community crosswalk program so other neighborhoods could create their own colorful street art. In 2015, a handful of Seattle streets were reborn when a rogue designer painted colorful new crosswalks.
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