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2024Focus Area
Celebrate Streets
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Using Tactical Urbanism as Community Engagement
This project supports our Guiding Principles for Health-Promoting Features and Streets. Check out the Guiding Principles to learn more about our goals.
Nashville Department of Transporation and Multimodal Infrastructure is working with Walk Bike Nashville and the Civic Design Center on creating temporary healthy built environment interventions and activations that could inform lasting change on Antioch Pike.
The Antioch Pike Tactical Urbanism project is a transformative initiative aimed at enhancing the built environment along a one-mile stretch of Antioch Pike, spanning from Nolensville Pike to McCall Street. This project seeks to address critical community needs, promote health equity, and create a vibrant, accessible corridor for all residents. Antioch Pike serves as a vital transportation artery, connecting neighborhoods, businesses, and public spaces. However, several challenges persist:
Pedestrian Safety and Accessibility: The existing streetscape lacks safe pedestrian crossings, adequate sidewalks, and accessible public spaces. This deficiency disproportionately affects vulnerable populations, including low-income residents, seniors, and people with disabilities.
Health Disparities: Residents in this area experience health disparities due to limited access to green spaces, physical activity opportunities, and social interaction. These disparities contribute to adverse health outcomes, including obesity, mental health issues, and social isolation.
Project Location
Project Plan
2024-2025October: Design tactical urbanism installation
August: Community Meetings: Glencliff Neighborhood, Cosecha Garden, Wright Middle, etc.
November: Tactical urbanism evaluation and surveying
September : Engagement and Public Life Study
December – February: Final draft designs & feedback
March – May: Quick Build Installation and Evaluation
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Nashville’s Tactical Urbanism Program
Tactical urbanism is an action-oriented approach using temporary measures to offer and test solutions in the public realm. It is also known as planning by-doing or pop-up urbanism and has been happening in Nashville since 2012, when Civic Design Center held the community’s first Park(ing) Day.
The Nashville Department of Transportation and Multimodal Infrastructure (NDOT) has created a new guide to assist local applicants in developing, permitting, and installing tactical urbanism projects. This guide was developed with Metro Staff, Barge Design Solutions and Fairpointe Planning and was informed by input from the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT), Nashville's Vision Zero Advisory Committee, Civic Design Center, and Walk Bike Nashville.
A key goal of this guide is to make it easier for communities across Nashville to install tactical urbanism projects. In early 2024, NDOT will begin providing additional support for applicants including pre-application meetings and access to funding for materials and installation costs within priority zones based on the Vision Zero Action Plan.
Metro Nashville Vision Zero
The Vision Zero movement is a worldwide strategy to eliminate all traffic-related deaths and severe injuries and at the same time, increase safety, equity, and mobility for all users. Metro Nashville and Davidson County became a Vision Zero city in 2022. Metro Council adopted the Vision Zero Action Plan and Implementation Plan in August of that year.
While Vision Zero is a challenging goal, it’s worth working towards because people deserve safe streets in Nashville.
This project was made possible with grant support from:
