Lovely, healthy, and quite the change of perspective with this ‘Tube map for walkers’ which links London’s green spaces. Created by the designer Helen Ilus, the map replaces metro lines with suggested walks and existing trails to take walkers around the city, from parc to parc.
Since we’ve already mentioned kits to help citizens in getting involved in their neighbourhood, lets look at another one, the Measure What Matters: DIY Toolkit.
If you’re trying to imagine what a FabCity means, what it could look like, you could start by heading to the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, to discover the Everyone. Everyday. initiative, led by the Participatory City Foundation. Here’s what that looks like:
At first glance, it might surprising for some to see a project like The GROW Observatory on a website for a community and event with the word “city” in its name. Actually, it’s a great fit in a number of ways.
Great story from Chiang Mai, Thailand, where Supawut Boonmahathanakorn, a community architect who works on housing solutions, managed to get permission from the city to organise an urban farm.
