Pictures by Collectif de réappropriation de l’espace public, Dubwise Version, Joe Shlabotnik, Sharon Mollerus and Fito Senabre
Below are listed examples of actions (in orange) and policies (in green) that aim at providing an equal access to public space.
Reclaiming common spaces and reusing abandoned resources
While comercialisation and privatisation are excluding people from public spaces, buildings and pieces of land are being abandoned. In front of this paradox, groups of the civil society are working individually or hand by hand with local administrations in order to reuse abandoned resources, such as land and buildings, and to reclaim the public space as a common good.
- ACTION
Other examples of Action:
- Collectif de réappropriation de l'espace public, France: http://crep-stqy.net/
- Gerrilla Gardening, United Kingdom: http://www.guerrillagardening.org/
- Street Art: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_art
- Park(ing) day: http://www.parkingday.fr
- POLICY
Promoting equal treatment in public spaces
Public spaces are an area of conflict between diffirent groups, in which the interests of the most marginalised population groups, particularly homeless people, are seldom taken into account. As mentioned, people experiencing poverty are often excluded from public spaces will it be through local ordinance or bills that forbid to sleep or gather in the street, internal rules of semi-public spaces such as railway stations, and so on.
Promoting a democratic managment of public spaces
Examples:
- Participatory urbanistic workshop in Aubervillier, France: http://www.aubervilliers.fr/actu3082.html
- Architecture in vivo, France: http://www.architecture-in-vivo.com/
- Participatory urbanism at Benny-Farm, Canada : http://urbablog.blogspirit.com/archive/2008/10/26/la-demarche-participative-dans-l-urbanisme-le-cas-reussi-du.html
All Examples of Actions and Policies
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