Our need for do-it-yourself city building

Monday, November 16, 2015

Our need for do-it-yourself city building

In his last contribution as a member of the community editorial board at the Waterloo Region Record, Troy Glover promotes tactical urbanism as a an exciting placemaking strategy in Waterloo Region.

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Whatever the intervention, tactical urbanism animates our public spaces by making them more inviting and dynamic, while offering a critique against existing, and often drab, urban form. It captures the public's imagination in the whimsical ways it unsettles and contests the status quo.