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Tactical urbanism in New Zealand

Simon Wilson wrote in New Zealand's largest newspaper of local and international examples including 1978 cabbage patch in Wellington the capital:

Headline: Tactical urbanism, guerrilla gardening and the Plunger Revolution
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/tactical-urbanism-guerrilla-gardening-and-the-plunger-revolution/OP5XNKQGM7FDZGTJYA765OU4UQ/
By Simon Wilson, 26 Mar, 2022
In 1978 in Wellington, the artist Barry Thomas planted 180 cabbages on a vacant lot downtown. When they grew, they spelled the word "cabbage". Today, in several parts of Auckland, you can find trees, flowers and veges planted on the berm, while colourful knitted sleeves keep turning up on all sorts of posts and poles around town.
Nobody has permission to do these things. They're all tactical urbanism, original styles: people just getting out and doing it. It's how it has to be, because if you do ask permission, they'll just say no.
Despite that, officialdom has moved in on the action: Te Papa bought the photographic record of the cabbage patch and "tactical urbanism" is now an official transport policy. Waka Kotahi even has a tactical urbanism handbook, telling local authorities how best to reconfigure a street with planters, picnic furniture, paint and whatever.
Food trucks, ciclovias, Paris Plages and the dots painted on Shortland St are all examples of official tactical urbanism. They're all good and we should have a lot more of it.
But there's still a place for just doing it. In Britain and America, there are people who spend their lives planting silverbeet and wildflowers in places where they're not supposed to. They're called guerrilla gardeners and there's a New Zealand movement of them too. Authorities despair; locals are often delighted.

Best tactical urbanism ever? Pointing hairdryers at speeding cars to slow them down is pretty good.

But how about the Plunger Revolution? It started in New York, where a group of guerrilla bike activists called the Transformation Dept have been sticking rows of toilet plungers to the street, to make it safer to cycle on. The Yellowbrick Street Team has done the same thing in Wichita, Kansas

26 Mar, 2022 05:00 AM b'art homme 18:01, 21 December 2022 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by B'art homme (talk • contribs)

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