For those who aren’t already aware, the term “tactical urbanism” refers to the use of temporary, low cost materials to help improve public spaces and neighbourhoods. The practice has been around for a long time, but this term has been popularized over the past few years including by Mikael Colville-Andersen during his TV series “
The Life Sized City”. Last weekend, 8 80 Cities and
Better Block took this concept to a whole new level by building a pop up complete street on Danforth Avenue known as
8 80 Streets Danforth; a first of its kind for Canada.