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DIY urban design comes in all shapes and sizes, and each project has its own genesis. Portland's City Repair Project has been doing DIY urban design for longer than most. In 1996, a group of residents in the city's Sellwood neighborhood constructed a small public gathering place near their houses before eventually reclaiming an entire intersection, converting it into a community plaza. It was the first of many such repaired and reclaimed intersections in Portland, including Sunnyside Piazza, above. (Text: GOOD Magazine)
Byens borgere har altid sat deres aftryk på byen – graffiti for eksempel har vi kendt til i århundreder. Men arealudvikling og byplanlægning har længe været de profesionelle og bureaukraternes domæne. Det har mange steder resulteret i byrum, der fuldstændig savner en menneskelig dimension og følsomhed.
I de senere år er der fremkommet forskellige former for uautoriserede og kreative modifikationer af det offentlige rum der har som målsætning, at gøre byens rum bedre for de mange. Initiativrige borgere omdanner forladte telefonbokse, installerer stole og bænke, maler deres egne cykelstier, og overtagere hele vejkryds til andre formål end trafik. Det er alt sammen initiativer, der er mere målrettede end graffiti, og alligevel meget personlige og sted-specifikke tiltag. Det er ‘Gør-det-selv urban design’.
Se flere Gør-det-selv urban design eksempler på GOOD Magazine Cities.
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Citizens have always made their marks on cities—graffiti has been an urban presence for millennia—but land use and city planning have long been the province of professionals and bureaucrats. As a result, many urban spaces today lack human scale and sensitivity.
In recent years, however, there has been an increase in the unauthorized, creative alteration of public spaces for the common good. Enterprising citizens are repurposing abandoned phone booths, installing public furniture, painting their own bike lanes, and even reclaiming entire intersections. More targeted and purposeful than most graffiti, yet more personal and place-based than a political campaign, this is do-it-yourself urban design.
See more DIY urban Design examples on GOOD Magazine Cities.
In many parts of Los Angeles, the lack of street furniture is the result of a lack of funding. Seating and shelter at bus stops, for instance, are largely provided by the advertising companies that use these structures as displays. So in places where they don't bother advertising, there usually isn't even a place to sit—even at bus stops. In South L.A., a group of area residents and parishioners of St. Michael's Catholic Church on Manchester got together to address this lack of sidewalk furniture themselves. (Text: GOOD Magazine)
LA Street furniture.
In Berkeley, San Francisco, this street sign cozy doubles as a low-tech community "msg center," where citizens can leave public announcements or notes for others who happen to be passing through the neighborhood. (Text: GOOD Magazine)
The luscious landscaping of this London traffic island is the work of guerrilla gardener Richard Reynolds and his comrades. (Text: GOOD Magazine)
