372- The Help-Yourself City

<p>There’s an idea in city planning called “informal urbanism.”  Some people call it “do-it-yourself urbanism.”  Informal urbanism covers all the ways people try to change their community that isn’t through city planning or some kind of official process. If you’ve put up a homemade sign warning people not to sit on a broken bench, that’s DIY urbanism. If you’ve used cones or a chair to reserve your own parking spot on a public street, that’s also DIY urbanism.</p> <p>Gordon Douglas has written a whole book about this idea called “The Help Yourself City.” It looks at all the ways people are taking matters into their own hands. Both for good reasons and for <em>incredibly</em> selfish ones.</p> <p><a href="https://99percentinvisible.org/?p=30159&amp;post_type=episode" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Help-Yourself City</a></p>