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#76. Street Anarchy Increases Safety

Can automobiles, bicycles, and pedestrians share streets without the mediation of traffic lights, road signs, and designated lanes? Planning proposals initiated by the Space movement in a variety o

Walking

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#77. Bees Make Concrete Honey

Urban agriculture suffers from a lack of pollinators compared with rural farming.

Gardening

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#78. Market Sprouts Under Sunshade

A temporary repurposing of a parking lot that restores it to the pedestrian urban fabric of Köpenick, Germany, by installing a farmer’s market.

Playing

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#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

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#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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#81. Pedestrians Populate Highway

Sunday at overpass, São Paulo, 26 February, 2006. ©João Sodré

The elevated Minhocão, or “big worm,” expressway was cut through central São Paulo in 1971.

Walking

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#82. Megapicnic Takes Streets with City Produce

Photograph by Jonathan Gales ©Bohn & Viljoen Architects 2008

A market and massive “continuous” picnic held to show how urban food production and public space can be combined advantageously in central London.

Gardening

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#83. Sheep and Lambs Eat City Parks

©Daniele Hosmer Zambelli

The city of Turin saved 30,000 euros by using sheep to mow lawns at three public parks.

Gardening

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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

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#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

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#86. Parking Meter Makes Park

©Rebar

A very short-term lease of a downtown parking space allows the autonomous creation of public space.

Recycling

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