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11 CCA Actions

#99. Strawberry Treehouse Replaces City Construction Plans

Residents in the Hafenrandverein (Harbour Edge Association) organised the Park Fiction initiative to prevent the development of the slope along the Elbe River in St.

Playing

Plan Smarter

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#98. Giant Letters Undo Perspective

The Novak graphic design firm was inspired by their work on the Actions book to take their own action: graphic design taken for a walk.

Playing

Low Effort

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#94. Protest Takes Expressway to Power

A strike called by unions and student groups in support of the opposition political party turned into a protest against the dismissal of the governors of Venezuela’s state oil corporations.

Walking

Crowd Power

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#66. Birds Research Local History

A pre-planning research project that engaged the community in establishing claims to a site for a future park.

Playing

Plan Smarter

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#65. Fake Horses Plan Real Park

muf architecture/art was commissioned in 2003 to design a community park for the Broadway Estate in Tilbury.

Playing

Plan Smarter

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#60. Illicit Stencil Saves Cyclists

Toronto’s Urban Repair Squad grew tired of waiting for municipal authorities to create adequate bicycle lanes and began to install their own DIY infrastructure, encouraging others to take action ag

Walking

Guerrilla

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#64. Trees Reduce Allergies

After becoming interested in allergies as a botany student, Thomas Leo Ogren began to research the relationship between city planning and allergies.

Gardening

Plan Smarter

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#29. Walk in Mini-Detroit Saves City

An educational device that replicates a portion of Detroit’s residential architecture and urban layout through a system of photographs mounted on metal frames.

Walking

Clue

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#28. Photocopies Create Promenade

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.

Recycling

Choose

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#13. Sticker Rescues Food

Courtesy Adam Bobbette

Food is be sold and eaten under rigid legal and customary rules: expiry dates and cosmetic imperfections result in the disposal of many still-edible foods.

Gardening

Excess

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