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#24. Insect Saves Tree

Installation of the Insect House to prevent cutting of trees, Recetas Urbanas, 2001

A single-person tree-inhabitation structure designed for rapid installation, anti-police protection, and summer ventilation, the Insect House was built in one night at the invitation of a group pro

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#25. Ceiling Lights Defeat Unwanted Development

© Recetas Urbanas

Project with Lights was a strategy for catalyzing community interest in a piece of land that had been approved for development without much consultation.

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#26. Corn Restores Land-Use Diversity

© Notacornfield. Courtesy the Annenberg Foundation.

An urban agriculture project that sought to reconnect residents of Los Angeles with their natural environment.

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#27. Shipping Pallets Grow Community

Vacant spaces at 56 Sainte-Blaise transformed with neighbours, 2007 – 2008 © aaa

Two ‘social construction’ projects directed by the atelier d’architecture autogérée for neighbourhoods in Paris that lacked green space.

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#28. Photocopies Create Promenade

High Line Series, 2000. Canadian Centre for Architecture Collection, Montréal. © Joel Sternfeld

Friends of the High Line was founded in 1999 to coordinate efforts to save a 2.3 km-long elevated railway in Southwestern Manhattan by turning it into a public park-promenade.

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