Camina, Haz Ciudad - The Video (Spanish)

Pedestrian Defense Movement (Mexico City)

Movimiento de Defensa Peatonal (MDP)
https://www.facebook.com/MovimientoDeDefensaPeatonalMDP

Camina, Haz Ciudad Interview

http://thisbigcity.net/wikicity-improving-mexico-city-tactical-urbanism-pedestrians-cyclists/

With Love From Toulon

http://transports.blog.lemonde.fr/2012/11/18/ces-militants-qui-dessinent-des-fausses-pistes-cyclables/

With Love From Memphis

Community initiative including bike lane, crosswalk and parking spots (April 2012)

http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2012/4/25/guerrilla-painting.html

With Love From Pelotas, Rio Grande Do Sul

New Bike Boxes from Pelotas, Brasil
Source

More info via Pedal Curticeira

With Love From Orlando, Florida

Broken City Lab

Art for broken cities
http://www.brokencitylab.org/

New Zebra Crossing in Mexico City

Camina, Haz Ciudad installs a new zebra crossing in Mexico City for Park(ing) Day 2012

http://hazciudad.blogspot.ca/

Spontaneous Interventions Online

DIY Bike Lanes a hit at the Venice Biennale

DIY bike lanes get the Architectural Biennale treatment in Venice with Spontaneous Interventions Exhibition
now on public view.

New York Times review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/arts/design/13th-venice-architecture-biennale-the-usual-hagiography.html?smid=tw-share


"It suggests that cities and architects still have a ways to go to catch up with an increasingly restless public’s appetite for better design and better living. And that the public isn’t waiting."


Photo: URS bike lane on Bloor Street, Toronto.

Pothole Politicos

Via The Grist http://grist.org/list/frustrated-russians-get-rid-of-potholes-by-stuffing-them-into-politicians-mouths/

DIY Activism in American Architect Magazine

'Spontaneous Interventions'
American Architect Magazine explores DIY activism in its pages in advance of the Biennale 2012 in Venice:
http://www.architectmagazine.com/architecture/spontaneous-interventions--47-to--62.aspx

Biennale Architetura 2012
http://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/index.html


Photo: Pothole Onomatopoeia, URS Toronto

With Love from Pittsburgh, PA

Via Urban Velo
http://urbanvelo.org/diy-bike-lane/

Square of the Standing Sticks

Info Pillar Takeover

carTOgraphy471, a photo by Martinho on Flickr.

Spadina and College

With Love From Bogota

Combo 2600 creates a wonderful sidewalk in Bogota, Colombia.

Via
http://thisbigcity.net/wikicity-bogota-citizens-improve-road-safety-conditions/#.T-CRgPHIzO8.twitter

The Desire Crosswalk

Major and Ulster Street, Toronto. Kids paint a crosswalk in different colour chalk where cars routinely run through a stop sign and turn left.

Ciclo Faixa (Brasil)

Des graffitis pour reprendre la main sur l’espace urbain

Pas assez de voies pour cyclistes sur les routes de Toronto ? Qu’à cela ne tienne, les membres d’UrbanRepair Squad empoignent leurs pots de peinture et vont eux-mêmes dessiner des pistes cyclables sur le bitume. Fissures et trous menacent les deux-roues ? Des « Oof ! »et « Thonk ! » apparaissent, peints en rose fluo sur la chaussée. Ces pothole onomatopoeia (« onomatopées pour nids-de-poule ») anticipent les sons que les bécanes des cyclistes et cyclomotoristes pourraient produire au contact de ces obstacles urbains. Ils alertent aussi les services d’entretien de l’état de décrépitude dans lequel sont laissées les routes. Urban Repair Squad, comme d’autres adeptes du « Do it yourself urban design », poussent ainsi les graffitis au-delà de la simple performance artistique : ils s’en prennent à un domaine jusqu’alors laissé aux mains des bureaucrates et améliorent eux-mêmes l’environnement urbain.

Et tout y passe : à Los Angeles, Eco Village redessine les intersections routières pour les rendre plus sûres et agréables, les agrémentant de passages piétons, de bancs et d’arbres. Les militants américains de City Repair, à Portland, délogent quant à eux les plaques de bitume inutiles afin d’étendre l’espace disponible pour des jardins communautaires ! — via Terra Eco

The Street Hacker, Officially Embraced

The Street Hacker, Officially Embraced (The Atlantic)

Astral Media vs Bike Parking: Street Artists Fight Back!

Astral Media install an 'Info Pillar' and remove five bike parking spots in just one location... 
the rest is some pretty compelling street art. An article about the intervention via Torontoist
http://torontoist.com/2012/04/spotted-ghost-bike-posts/

Traffic Light Art

With Love From Recife

Meanwhile in Sao Paulo

Bike Reporter & Pedaline (Brasil) Photos: http://instagr.am/p/I-k82OCBBj/ & http://twitter.com/#!/pedaline/status/187339092827181056/photo/1 Activists in Sao Paulo paint a crosswalk and bike lane on a dangerous road. News story with more images

Wile E. Ford Mural (AGO)

Installation/Mural produced as part of the video series 'Whitewash' by Sean Martindale and Pascal Paquette http://nowexhibition.com/ for the Art Gallery of Ontario.

The Portable Crosswalk

via Pop-Up City
http://popupcity.net/2012/03/urban-hacktivist-launches-guerrilla-crosswalks/

The Wile E. Ford Bike Mural

With Love From Zaragoza, Spain

With A Love For Flowers From London

With Love From Portland

A fine example of preventing dangerous spots for cyclists. Fixed in Portland for next to nothing:
http://bikeportland.org/2012/01/04/activist-takes-road-hazard-fix-into-own-hands-for-under-20-64616?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BikePortland+%28BikePortland.org%29 (Hat tip to Nick from Portland) Follow up. Seems the City of Portland got the message

Article: http://is.gd/F0J3cF