Citizens as Builders: Co-production Strategies
Jesús Hernández
Published in "Public Space Acupuncture", 2015
The motivations that lead so many citizens all over the world to intervene directly in public space autonomously and independently of the authorities are very diverse.
In some cases this is due to simple aesthetic reasons, in the spirit of improving the urban environment they live in, or as a hobby shared collectively, or they have an economic motivation based on which urban spaces are used to produce food for direct consumption or for sale. In other cases the interventions have political motivations attempting to create a change in the urban environment through direct action, or they serve to denounce situations of neglect in order to provoke action from the authorities.
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