Adaptive Cities Lots of ideas
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75 Seriously Fun Ways to Make Your Town More Playful link
Playborhood: Turn Your Neighborhood Into A Place For Play
In
Playborhood: Turn Your Neighborhood Into a Place for Play,
you’ll find inspiring stories of innovative communities throughout the
US and Canada that have successfully created vibrant neighborhood play
lives for their children. You’ll also get a comprehensive set of
step-by-step solutions to turn around your family and neighborhood
cultures, so that your kids can spend less time in front of screens and
in adult-supervised activities, and more time engaging in joyful
neighborhood play.
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Do-It-Yourself Urban Design: The Social Practice of Informal “Improvement” Through Unauthorized Alteration
There are numerous ways in which people make illegal or unauthorized
alterations to urban space. This study identifies and analyzes one that
has been largely ignored in social science: explicitly functional and
civic-minded informal contributions that I call “do-it-yourself urban
design.” The research, which began as an investigation into more
“traditional” nonpermissable alterations, uncovered these cases—from
homemade bike lanes and street signs to guerrilla gardens and
development proposals—that are gaining visibility in many cities, yet
are poorly accounted for by existing perspectives in the literature.
This article examines the existing theories and evidence from interviews
and other fieldwork in 14 cities in order to develop the new analytical
category of DIY urban design. I present findings on the creators of
these interventions, on their motivations to “improve” the built
environment where they perceive government and other development actors
to be failing, and on the concentration of their efforts in gentrifying
areas. This introduces the possibility of conflict and complicates their
impact. I argue that DIY urban design has wide-ranging implications for
both local communities and broader urban policy. link
Play England
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