Halloween Costumes for Urban Planners

October 30th, 2010

For the past three years, Nate Berg at Planetizen has created lists of the best urban planning costume ideas.

This year’s standouts include:

  • Pocket Park : Show your friends how to take advantage of underused urban spaces with this pocket park costume. Simply take a pair of pants, turn the pockets inside out and draw a little park. Pull those pockets out on Halloween and plant that seed.
  • Personal Rapid Transit : Think pods are the future of public transit? Help convince your friends by dressing up as your own automated podcar. Dress all in white, top yourself off with a motorcycle helmet and you’re on a path to the future of transit.
  • Roundabout: Cut out a large cardboard circle to go around your middle.  Adhere fake (or real, depending on availability and your own ambition) flowers and plants to your torso and head.  I guarantee you SOMEBODY who gets and appreciates the costume (most likely a fellow planner-nerd) will have fun running circles around you at some point.

Here is a picture from 2009’s list

And a few ideas from 2008:

  • Bike Lane: Here’s an easy one. Just get some black clothes and some white tape. Make two strong lines from each foot to each shoulder and tape out a simple bike on your torso in between. Fashionable and bikeable.
  • New Urbanism: Go all-pastel. Invite someone to sit on your lap –er, front porch.
  • Sprawl: This costume is more of a role-playing challenge. Try to take up as much room as possible. Drink a lot of water. Bring two cars. And wherever you go, make sure it’s at least 20 miles away.
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