With Love From Sao Paulo

With Love From DC

New Book On DIY Urbanism (Oxford University Press)

The Help-Yourself City

Legitimacy and Inequality in DIY Urbanism

Gordon C.C. Douglas

• Combines cultural and urban sociology with urban planning, policy, and design scholarship
• Includes more than 100 interviews with do-it-yourself urban designers, planning and design professionals, and community members in 17 cities
• Appraises the under-studied and widely-celebrated trend of DIY urbanism to highlight the implications for urban planning, community development, and how everyday people engage with urban policy and urban space itself

With Love From Mexico City (DF)

Intersection fixed with leaves and chalk

Source: http://www.blogto.com/city/2017/11/someone-fixed-dangerous-toronto-intersection-leaves/

The DIY Crosswalks of San Diego

https://therivardreport.com/crosswalk-appears-on-st-marys-strip-prompting-swift-action-from-city/ https://therivardreport.com/a-broadway-crosswalk-at-the-pearl-at-least-for-a-day/

OogleEyes DIY Crosswalk

                        Dufferin Grove Park Entrance September 2017

Update: Removed by city staff late October, 2017

The Life-Sized City Documentary

Source: http://tvo.org/video/documentaries/the-life-sized-city/ep-2-toronto

Victim blaming by Boston Mayor gets the answer it deserves

http://usa.streetsblog.org/2017/05/22/after-bostons-mayor-blames-crash-victims-pop-up-comics-push-for-better-bike-lanes/

Transformation Dept. in NYC strikes again with Tulips

Source: https://twitter.com/NYC_DOTr/status/850409882742337536
Article: http://nyc.streetsblog.org/2017/04/07/cones-to-the-rescue-safer-turns-at-first-ave-and-9th-street/

With Love From San Francisco

Maximum 10 - Kensington Market

Update: Two of the 10km speed limit signs were still in place in early April 2017, more than 6 months after installation.

(Nassau and Kensington)

Articles:
BlogTO:

http://www.blogto.com/city/2016/09/someone_changed_the_speed_limit_in_kensington_market/

Indie88:
http://indie88.com/someone-changed-the-speed-limit-signs-in-kensington-market/
Toronto Sun:
http://www.torontosun.com/2016/09/16/fake-speed-limit-posted-in-kensington-market
NOW
https://nowtoronto.com/news/think-free-blog/urban-repair-squad-lowers-speed-limit-in-kensington/
More photos here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/martinreis/albums/72157670569560794

Post City: http://www.postcity.com/Eat-Shop-Do/Do/October-2016/Guerilla-Urban-Repair-Squad-hits-Toronto/

Video: https://www.flickr.com/photos/martinreis/with/29496806220/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/shawnmicallef/status/808059767063187460

January 2017

With Love From Philly

Via: http://www.philly.com/philly/living/How-a-Philly-guy-fed-up-with-crashes-built-his-own-bike-lane.html

Reclaiming Modern Cities From Cars

Ideas For Reclaiming Cities from Cars by tino on Scribd

Very cool 3D Zebra Crossing (India)

Source: http://www.scoopwhoop.com/3D-Zebra-Crossing-Designed-By-Gujarat-Women/

Classic Roadsworth

Peatónito! Defender of Pedestrians

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/nov/09/unmasked-mexico-city-superhero-wrestling-pedestrian-rights

With Love from Brooklyn

http://www.citylab.com/cityfixer/2015/10/an-anonymous-group-is-fixing-bike-lanes-where-new-york-isnt/413206/?utm_source=SFTwitter

Article: http://gothamist.com/2016/01/21/dress_like_street_cone_4_safety.php

DIY Bike Lanes New York (1990s)