National Street Service

We are excited to announce an open call for new cities to join the National Street Service - anyone can nominate their city for a future program, so please spread the word! To nominate your city please visit our website - nationalstreetservice.org/join

We need to re-prioritize streets for people. Beaudry, our Head of Policy Initiatives, lays it all out in the @sfchronicle. sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…

Changing the streets can be an intimidating prospect. The goal of our program and curriculum is to make the language and process more relatable to everyday people, inspiring tangible action and experimentation which achieve change one person, one neighborhood, one city at a time.

Do your local streets deserve more creativity? How would your neighborhood bring their creativity, expression and culture into the open for all to enjoy? Let's create the streets you’d love to see - nominate your city for the National Street Service at nationalstreetservice.org

What do you picture when you imagine the streets of the future? Do you picture robots and flying cars? Let’s take a step back, and ask - What do you picture when you imagine a *better* street? How are they different?

Which of your streets deserve more community, more closeness, and more social connection? If you know a street in need, it’s time to join us. Nominate your city for the National Street Service in 2019 at nationalstreetservice.org

While we're on the subject of signs, here's some other signs we love, created by our program participants in Philly - big thanks to Kyra, Al, Ali and Tammy Leigh for coming up with some people-focused street rules for their local streets.

A win for people-centered streets! We love the sign.

It’s easy to forget that streets are changeable. When we start with what we value, we can build better streets together. These ideas from our 2018 stewards show how even low-cost changes have high potential to improve our street experience.

And better infrastructure starts with communities building a shared definition of what 'better' means in their local context

We've learned a profound amount working alongside locals in the five cities we have worked with to date - in this article we summarize some of our key insights  - medium.com/greenfieldlabs…

Very inspiring to review the new street design principles from @sidewalklabs. They rightly ask: “Can we take advantage of new technologies to fundamentally redesign the street?” I can’t wait to see experimentation with many of these in the real world. sidewalklabs.com/streetdesign/

Timely #longread for your weekend reading pleasure - 200 pages of stories and experiments on inspiring communities to rebuild streets to suit their needs - issuu.com/nationalstreet…

It's here at last! Our Field Guide to the National Street Service celebrates the people, efforts and insights uncovered during our work in 2017 and 2018. #streetsforpeople issuu.com/nationalstreet…

@jessicaroberts Thanks for the kind words - we’re so glad you find them inspiring!

I didn't think I needed another roundup of creative, low-cost street interventions, but these idea cards from @Nstreetservice are delightful. Look through it; it'll inspire you! static1.squarespace.com/static/58da9ee…

Volunteers from our Boise program (with a boost from our Summer Grants) set up parklets within two strip malls, transforming these parking lots into inviting places for people as part of the festivities for PARK(ING) day 2018.

Nicolas of Parts TX (our San Antonio City Lead) used his Summer Grant to conduct a Street Soul Tour, traveling in his novel ice cream truck / mobile office / sleeper van vehicle to see what he would do to bring the National Street Service to even more places.

The NSS Youth team have continued their great work, transforming notes from their Community Listening Box into a street exhibition to invite the community to share their hopes and dreams for the future of North Philadelphia’s streets. Photo Credit: Ken McFarlane