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#92. Truck Tires Relax Pedestrians

Lazy chairs installed in Durban, Jan Körbes, 2008

Thirty “Lazy” chairs and fifteen “Four-Meal Drive” picnic tables made out of tires were put in a public park, allowing people to rest. A public market grew up around the site in Durban.

Recycling

Low Effort

4 comments

#80. Park Benches Welcome Skateboarders

An integrated skate and public park along Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River Park designed with skateboarders for multiple uses: pedestrians, cyclists, and skateboarders will share the park.

Playing

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#84. Parking Garage is Bedroom

A proposal for the reprogramming of parking garages: the garages are modified by Office of Unsolicited Architecture (OUA) trucks to shelter homeless people at night.

Recycling

3 comments

#87. Table Attracts Neighbours

Hypothèses d’amarrages, Montréal, 2001- 2003 Photograph by Luc Lévesque © SYN-

A series of related spatial “moorings” and “insertions” composed of mobile pool, foosball, and picnic tables designed to offer residents opportunities for easy interaction with trivialized urban sp

Recycling

Low Effort

4 comments

#67. Wood Makes People Big as Cars

The Austrian civil engineer Hermann Knoflacher developed the Gehzeug, or walkmobile, in 1975 to allow a pedestrian to approximate the amount of space taken by a motorist.

Walking

Plan Smarter

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#61. Bicycle Plants Wartime Gardens

Victory Garden Trike and Gardener, January 2007. © Amy Franceschini

A pilot project for productive planting, Victory Gardens revived eponymous programs created in the United States, Canada, and Britain for producing food during the First World War.

Gardening

Guerrilla

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#33. Sliding Activates Roof’s Unplanned Playfulness

Since its construction in 1954, the Oscar Niemeyer-designed Lucas Nogueira Garcez Pavilion in São Paulo’s Ibirapuera Park has been used as a playground by adventurous youths. Known locally as the ,

Playing

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#40. Wheels Give Super Powers

A composite plastic-and-steel suit covered with free-spinning roller-skating wheels, the Roller Suit has six components: two arms, two legs, front, back, as well as additional protection for the sh

Playing

Friction

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