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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

6 comments

#79. Paint Grows Soccer Field

Football Field 1. Maider López. Sharjah Art Museum, United Arab Emirates, 2007. © Maider López

As part of the Sharjah Biennial, artist Maider López painted the lines of a soccer field red in a public square of Sharjah, adding goals on either end.

Playing

48 comments

#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

#85. Plastic Bag Feeds Neighbourhood

A system for the transformation of vacant lots into community gardens using plastic bags filled with dirt, seeds, and water.

Gardening

2 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

#71. Vietnamese Farm Feeds New Orleans

An 11-hectare community farm located in an area severely damaged by hurricane Katrina, Viet Village Urban Farm was designed by residents of New Orleans East with architects Mossop + Michaels to res

Gardening

Plan Smarter

9 comments

#73. Playgrounds Bring Slum to City

Project panels and presentation images for play spaces in a Buenos Aires slum, 2007 © PlaySpace Foundation

In opposition to typical approaches to slum improvement that clear large areas for new systems of infrastructure and housing, the Playspace Foundation proposed to integrate the Villa Tranquila slum

Recycling

Plan Smarter

0 comments

#74. Cows Push Residents to Plan

Cow The Udder Way was a planning provocation that emerged out of an entry to the Shrinking Cities exhibition.

Gardening

Plan Smarter

1 comments

#54. Guns Seed Vacant Lots

Plant the Piece is a symbolic seed-bomb production project.

Gardening

Guerrilla

0 comments

#62. Tomatoes Colonize Traffic Islands

Love Apples is the experimental settlement of Los Angeles traffic islands by tomato plants. Some of the most visible land in the city, traffic islands are marginal, ignored, and rarely planted.

Gardening

Guerrilla

3 comments

#50. Closets Colonize Vacant Lots

A strategy for autonomous construction in Seville, the Casa Rompecabeza, or “Puzzle House,” was built on an empty lot with the approval of the landowner.

Recycling

Guerrilla

0 comments

#8. Umbrellas Join Forces for Shelter

There are umbrellas in every city. As one umbrella is a cheap, portable shelter for a single person, many can become shelter for a group of people.

Recycling

Excess

2 comments

#4. Reclaim Vacant Lot with What City’s Got

A proposal made to the city of Seville for legislation to assist in the temporary transformation of public and private solares – vacant lots walled off for security – into public spaces for at leas

Recycling

Excess

6 comments

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