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Abstract: Traffic calming has been used to achieve municipal and regional transportation safety goals in cities throughout the world. As the result of public process, it is subject to input from diverse stakeholder parties, professional review, potential delay, and suboptimal levels of citizen participation. Simultaneously, trends in tactical urbanism have allowed citizens to become active participants ... read morein urban renewal and placemaking projects. These participatory planning initiatives have not yet found a foothold in the field of traffic calming, they are utilized primarily for participatory programming. Streets, it seems are only nominally public spaces, and are in reality still the domain of agencies comprised of engineers, planners, and elected officials. This research aims to explore the aspects of a participatory street painting project known as the Neighborway. Specifically, the research aims to measure if the participatory nature of these projects yields better outcomes with respect to adoption, safety, and community engagement.
Thesis (M.A.)--Tufts University, 2017.
Submitted to the Dept. of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning.
Advisor: Julian Agyeman.
Committee: Mary Davis, and Mark Chase.
Keywords: Transportation, and Urban planning.read less
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