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This special issue of I Urban Design International i brings together six diverse new studies on this phenomenon referred to as guerrilla urbanism, or insurgent public space, or urban hacking, or spatial reclaiming, or do-it-yourself, grassroots, pop-up, etc., urbanism. Certainly he is correct that the most prominent interventions to capture attention in the public sphere - whether community-building tactical urbanism, professionally designed creative placemaking efforts, or the hip appeal of nonetheless-still-illegal guerrilla bicycle lanes - still represent only a fraction of the informal urbanisms by which people around the world are constantly making and remaking their built environments. And here, guerrilla urbanism comes back around to the roots of tactical urbanism, roots which I would argue are certainly shared. But the cultural expression of a minority group, and the sense of freedom and power that comes with expressing it, however, quietly and despite other forms of oppression or marginalization that may remain, is a real example of the "art of living" and the emancipatory value of making one's surroundings one's own.[8] For me, perhaps the biggest hope for a guerrilla urbanism that could be truly changemaking - and that is desperately needed - is the urbanism of the unhoused. [Extracted from the article] |
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