The Laneway Project is a non-profit social enterprise dedicated to bringing laneways to life.
We are urban planners, designers and placemakers, and we work with public, private, and community-level stakeholders to transform laneways and other neglected public spaces into complete, living public places: building collaborative teams, implementing best practices and catalyzing policy changes.
Why we do this?
Laneways have a huge amount of untapped potential. While currently acting primarily as utilitarian service corridors, with strategic upgrades they can become fully-integrated and multi-purpose parts of our public space network, delivering extensive cultural, economic, social, health and environmental benefits. They can play a role in creating engaging, lively and richly textured places where people want to live, work and visit.
Improvements to laneways can create:
Improved local walkability and connectivity
Increased local space for informal physical activity
Local-scale midblock green spaces
Opportunities for gentle intensification
Opportunities for patios, pop-up shops and micro-businesses
Space for pop-up and permanent public art
Space for community events and entertainment