When local governments neglect public services or community priorities, how do concerned citizens respond? In The Help-Yourself City , Gordon Douglas looks closely at people who take urban planning into their own hands with homemade signs and benches, guerrilla bike lanes and more.
Presenting a needed analysis of this growing.
Douglas explores the frustration, creativity, and technical expertise behind these interventions, but also the position of privilege from which they often come.
When local governments neglect public services or community priorities, how do concerned citizens respond? In The Help-Yourself City , Gordon Douglas looks closely at people who take urban planning into their own hands with homemade signs and benches, guerrilla bike lanes and more
