In my latest
article on The
Guardian Sustainable Business, I make the case that “urban acupuncture” is one way to make cities more sustainable and livable. In interview with
Los Angeles architect John Southern, this is what he had to say about the movement to treat cities like an organism and pinpoint blighted spots throughout neighborhoods:
Urban acupuncture is a surgical and selective intervention into the urban environment instead of large scale projects that involve not only thousands of acres, but investment and infrastructure that municipalities can no longer provide.
You can read the entire
article here, which is on The Guardian’s
Built Environment Hub.
Pictured:
Parkman Triangle, a project led by John Southern that turned a patch of asphalt into a small micro-park.
This article was also posted on
PSFK and
Grist.
