Principal SITELAB Urban Studio San Francisco, California
Streets are vital public spaces that shape local community and identity through collective experience. Yet overburdened and under-designed streets are often seen as indicators of a city’s misfortune. This session will explore how design innovation, strategy, and partnerships can reposition streets as primary canvases for economic recovery and civic expression.
Learning Outcomes:
Explore the role of symbolic streets in the regeneration, recovery, and reinvigoration of towns and cities across the country.
Learn about the process of engaging local stakeholders and ground-floor businesses, and redesigning key streets and corridors, to meet modern public needs and cultivate a dynamic urban life.
Understand how designers balance needs for immediate street improvements with long-term transformations across multiple scales and timeframes, including using quick-build and tactical urbanism strategies to advance economic development and recovery.
Discuss the importance of creative collaborations between professions—particularly landscape architects, urban designers, engineers, and public agency representatives—to achieve innovations in the design of symbolic streets.
