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OpenPlans is a non-profit that advocates for making the streets of New York City livable for all residents. Open Plans uses tactical urbanism, grassroots advocacy, policy and targeted journalism to promote structural reforms within city government that support livable streets, neighborhoods and the city-at-large. The organization was founded in 1999 by Mark Gorton, the creator of LimeWire.
The organization has received funding from Google, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, Knight Foundation, the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), SURDNA Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, the World Bank and others.
OpenPlans organizes its activities into a number of divisions or projects.
OpenPlans engages in grassroots and cultural advocacy around issues of safe streets, traffic reduction, public space management, people-centered design, and livability.
Starting in 2018, OpenPlans began researching and writing about the importance of empowering communities to make choices about what their public spaces should look and feel like. Through this work, Open Plans began to see a lack of holistic attention and management to the City's streets and sidewalks. Although streets are invaluable public space in a dense city like New York, the Department of Transportation focuses on optimizing them almost entirely for the movement and storage of private vehicles. This creates issues of safety, walkability, accessibility, and diversity of use - issues that disproportionately harm communities already dealing with structural inequity and racism. Open Plans identified a need to advocate for building and managing public spaces that foster safety, joy, care and connection.
OpenPlans' policy work focuses on reforming city government to be more responsive to the needs of New York's diverse communities. Campaigns include advocating for an Office of Public Space Management, promoting traffic-calming measures and street redesigns that benefit pedestrians (such as a neckdowns), and eliminating parking minimums for new construction of buildings. Open Plans also uses our grassroots advocacy and tactical urbanism projects to learn about city agencies and the areas where they could be improved. The Summer of Play report is a deep dive into improving the process for community-planned street events.
StreetopiaUWS is a division of OpenPlans that focuses on community-driven livability and public space improvements for the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Reunited by their mutual desire for 21st-century transportation infrastructure at the 79th Street Rotunda, volunteers and staff from the Upper West Side Streets Renaissance Campaign joined forces in early 2019 to create StreetopiaUWS.
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OpenPlans
OpenPlans is a non-profit that advocates for making the streets of New York City livable for all residents. Open Plans uses tactical urbanism, grassroots advocacy, policy and targeted journalism to promote structural reforms within city government that support livable streets, neighborhoods and the city-at-large. The organization was founded in 1999 by Mark Gorton, the creator of LimeWire.
The organization has received funding from Google, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, Knight Foundation, the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), SURDNA Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, the World Bank and others.
OpenPlans organizes its activities into a number of divisions or projects.
OpenPlans engages in grassroots and cultural advocacy around issues of safe streets, traffic reduction, public space management, people-centered design, and livability.
Starting in 2018, OpenPlans began researching and writing about the importance of empowering communities to make choices about what their public spaces should look and feel like. Through this work, Open Plans began to see a lack of holistic attention and management to the City's streets and sidewalks. Although streets are invaluable public space in a dense city like New York, the Department of Transportation focuses on optimizing them almost entirely for the movement and storage of private vehicles. This creates issues of safety, walkability, accessibility, and diversity of use - issues that disproportionately harm communities already dealing with structural inequity and racism. Open Plans identified a need to advocate for building and managing public spaces that foster safety, joy, care and connection.
OpenPlans' policy work focuses on reforming city government to be more responsive to the needs of New York's diverse communities. Campaigns include advocating for an Office of Public Space Management, promoting traffic-calming measures and street redesigns that benefit pedestrians (such as a neckdowns), and eliminating parking minimums for new construction of buildings. Open Plans also uses our grassroots advocacy and tactical urbanism projects to learn about city agencies and the areas where they could be improved. The Summer of Play report is a deep dive into improving the process for community-planned street events.
StreetopiaUWS is a division of OpenPlans that focuses on community-driven livability and public space improvements for the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Reunited by their mutual desire for 21st-century transportation infrastructure at the 79th Street Rotunda, volunteers and staff from the Upper West Side Streets Renaissance Campaign joined forces in early 2019 to create StreetopiaUWS.