Tactical Urbanism
Tactical urbanism projects engage community members in envisioning and designing temporary people-friendly infrastructure mixed with art, culture, pop-up businesses and street life.
Featured Projects
¡Viva! Streets Denver
Over the summer of 2023, the Denver Streets Partnership worked with the Downtown Denver Partnership along with other community organizations to put together ¡Viva! Streets Denver. Through a series of four events, ¡Viva! Streets aimed to celebrate Denver’s unique and vibrant neighborhoods by closing off approximately 3.5 miles of Broadway and Welton Streets to cars.
Park(ing) Day
In 2022, Denver Streets Partnership collaborated with the Downtown Denver Partnership and Denver Community Active Living Coalition to co-host Park(ing) Day, an annual event that encourages repurposed curbside parking spaces, “parklets,” for public amenities curated and designed by and for people.
Vision Zero Community Program
In 2019 we partnered with the City of Denver on the Vision Zero Community Program, which gave teams of community members the opportunity to design projects aimed at promoting safer streets in their neighborhoods. Many of the selected teams chose to host pop-up traffic calming demonstrations in their neighborhoods.
Over the Colfax Clover
In 2018, we teamed up with the West Colfax Business Improvement District to launch the Over the Colfax Clover project as an effort to bring together community members and local experts to develop design solutions for an intersection that is currently unsafe and dangerous to navigate for all users.
Additional Projects
14th Avenue Open Streets Demonstration
The Denver Streets Partnership collaborated with the Civic Center Conservancy to host an Open Streets demonstration on 14th Avenue between Bannock Street and Acoma Street, south of Civic Center Park, in the Golden Triangle neighborhood on July 31, 2022.
Trevista Elementary mural
Community members painted a street mural at the intersection of W. 41st Ave & Navajo St to promote neighborhood identity and a sense of place, as well as to provide a visual cue to drivers that children may be crossing the street on their way to or from school.
Better Block: Jefferson Park
Better Block Jefferson Park took place on Saturday, June 23rd, 2012 in the old business district of Jefferson Park— on 25th Ave, between Federal and Eliot. The “Better Block” project was a community revitalization effort that temporarily demonstrates how to improve a commercial street with pedestrian and public infrastructure mixed with art, culture, pop-up businesses […]
Better Block: Five Points
Better Block Five Points demonstration on May 11th, 2013 was a huge success! An estimated 1,200 people visited Sonny Lawson Park during the event. Huge thank you to 150 volunteers and 30 community partners who helped us build the Better Block. Better Block Five Points in the Media: Denver Post KUVO Fox31 Denver Denver Post […]
Great Paths: The Boulevard at Jefferson Park
Like many urban neighborhoods, northwest Denver is experiencing a true Renaissance. With new restaurants and businesses opening their doors there are more places to visit and more people moving in to enjoy these amenities. Residents would like to walk to local destinations but there are many barriers such as busy streets and poor sidewalk conditions. Safety is often a concern. […]
Reimagine West Colfax
Reimagining West Colfax: From Demonstration to Long-Term Changes Report offers recommendations for making West Colfax better for people on foot and on bike. The Reimagine West Colfax Celebration was tremendously successful in demonstrating street design elements that could transform West Colfax from a dangerous speedway for cars into a safe, economically vibrant, and livable street for all users. […]
Better Broadway
Bus stops along Broadway aimed to celebrate transit riders during the Roll Out the Red Carpet event In celebration of the transit improvements to the Broadway/Lincoln corridor, the Better Broadway Coalition organized a Roll Out the Red Carpet event on Broadway on October 6 and 7, 2017. Various organizations decorated seven different bus stops between […]
Athmar Park Intersection Mural Painting
In 2017, community members chose to install an intersection mural outside of an elementary school in Athmar Park. The design featured elements that celebrate the neighborhood’s history as a celery farm, its beautiful parks and lakes, and the rich cultural diversity that can be found in the area and at Valverde Elementary. The newly-formed Athmar […]
13th Avenue Pop-Up Traffic Calming
When Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods (CHUN) contacted WalkDenver about how to address the issue of speeding in their neighborhood, we had the idea to use tactical urbanism to demonstrate traffic calming techniques that have been proven to increase safety. On September 29, 2018, CHUN and WalkDenver hosted a pop-up demonstration on 13th Ave at […]