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When governments don’t build infrastructure, citizens usually complain, but can’t do much about it. They pressure public officials and protest against proposed projects, but that’s as far as citizen participation in city building usually goes.
However, this model of citizen participation is being rethought by citizens around the world. They are taking control over what happens in their cities. They are helping to build them, mostly with paint.
In Mexico, the movement is called wikiciudad (wikicity), and it has the central idea that anyone can edit and modify cities. In Mexico City, a group painted pavements that didn’t previously exist and zebra crossings in dangerous intersections. Their actions have not only been acknowledged by local governments, but sometimes even improved on.
The improvements that citizens are building are not always priorities for local government, but, however tiny and localized, they do make a difference in the way people feel about and interact with the city’s public space.
Text edited from an article by Jimena Veloz
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If you're going up a ladder road (including Wightman) at more than 20mph and can't stop for a pedestrian then you're at fault. There'd have to be something wrong with your car (or you'd have to be updating facebook on your phone) for you to be not able to stop if you were adhering to the speed limit.
Stop your trolling and do something useful like iron a shirt for tomorrow night.
of course, why stop at boring black and white?
Here's a few more ideas. I'm thinking picture 2 for the wide road at Burgoyne and picture 5 for around the schools...
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