Catalyzing Community Capacity: How Philadelphia Can Create Equitable Right-of-Way Stewardship

Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation

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Catalyzing Community Capacity: How Philadelphia Can Create Equitable Right-of-Way Stewardship

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Catalyzing Community Capacity: How Philadelphia Can Create Equitable Right-of-Way Stewardship

Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation

01 Jul 2019

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https://doi.org/10.17918/00011136

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In 2018, the Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation began to study Philadelphia's processes for the public to implement and steward pedestrian plazas, parklets, and bicycle corrals. The resulting report, Catalyzing Community Capacity: How Philadelphia Can Create Equitable Right-of-Way Stewardship, released on September 18th, 2019, identifies significant barriers for the expansion of right-of-way (ROW) stewardship and proposes steps city and community leaders can take to overcome them, particularly in underserved communities. Publicly stewarded in-street amenities came to the city in the last decade: Philadelphia initiated parklet pilots in 2012 in University City and formally created its ROW stewardship program in 2014, but relatively few projects were created in the intervening years, and the numbers reaching a plateau of less than 30 overall improvements (Philadelphia currently has 4 pedestrian plazas, 11 parklets and 10 bike corrals created and stewarded by community members). This lack of momentum was the premise for this study. The report draws from dozens of interviews with local community development professionals, city staff working on these issues and national leaders in public space and placemaking. It balances practical, local feedback with aspirational best practices from peer cities in an effort to further Philadelphia’s rich tradition of community-driven design and stewardship.

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Title: Catalyzing Community Capacity: How Philadelphia Can Create Equitable Right-of-Way Stewardship
Creators: Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation (Institution)
Publisher: Nowak Metro Finance Lab, Drexel University; Philadelphia, PA
Number of pages: 70
Resource Type: Report
Language: English
Academic Unit: Nowak Metro Finance Lab; Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation
Other Identifier: 991022083155204721

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