Strasbourg-based street artist Florian Rivière is back with a new, neat urban intervention! Last weekend, Rivière installed a little library on a sidewalk near Gare du Nord in Paris.
The only ingredients Rivière used for his intervention are a tree cage and a wooden crate. Again, the urban hacktivist shows that tweaking an urban situation doesn’t require huge investments — it’s just about the idea.
According to Patrick Bernard, an urban neighbourhood doesn't have to be unfriendly or anonymous at all. Together with his fellow 'super neighbours', he aims to bring the conviviality of a village to the streets of Paris.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo garnered international praise when she launched her plan for the 15-Minute City. In her wake, similar but different concepts sprang up around the world — from 1-Minute Cities to 1,000-Minute Cities. We discuss a few of them.
Garbage collectors in Ankara have turned an abandoned brick factory into a community library full of discarded books.
