What you can do with the city

Living in a city means living together, defining and negotiating relationships with neighbours and with the urban environment. But it’s easy to overlook the everyday actions that make the stuff of urban life because it often seems like they are overpowered by the heavy frame of the contemporary urban system’s logistics, administration, and regulations. Bring the focus back onto pedestrians, gardeners, religious pilgrims, cyclists, recyclers, and drivers stuck in traffic. Make and use the city.

Outlaw gardeners beautify city

9 of 99 Actions

West 37th Street, Manhattan

Pioneers of the Bijlmermeer

3-1-1 and a Half

Interpreting Modernism

How to Be an Architectural Detective

The SAAL Process

Jimmy Carter Takes a Stand

Architecture after the Front Lawn

Roadkill Recipe

The Case of the Kumbh Mela

Coen Beeker’s Approach to Participation in Ouagadougou

Captioning Milton-Parc

Balkrishna Doshi’s Aranya

What you can do with the city

Living in a city means living together, defining and negotiating relationships with neighbours and with the urban environment. But it’s easy to overlook the everyday actions that make the stuff of urban life because it often seems like they are overpowered by the heavy frame of the contemporary urban system’s logistics, administration, and regulations. Bring the focus back onto pedestrians, gardeners, religious pilgrims, cyclists, recyclers, and drivers stuck in traffic. Make and use the city.

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3-1-1 and a Half

In Montreal, construction is a big part of our reality. Mandatory detours, endless noise, messy streets, dangerous intersections—you know the list. Since children might see possibilities that adults don’t, we need their help. In these videos, they address real questions and complaints posed by people in Montreal, analyze them, and develop imaginative responses that reveal the unforeseen possibilities of building sites.

3-1-1 and a Half: Léanne responds to Laura

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3-1-1 and a Half: Colin and Raouf respond to Stephen

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3-1-1 and a Half: Félix and Timothy respond to Andres

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3-1-1 and a Half: A. J. replies to David

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3-1-1 and a Half: Agathe and Raphaëlle respond to Lucienne

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3-1-1 and a Half: Eli replies to Yoshio

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3-1-1 and a Half: Paul responds to Sawe

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These videos were recorded as part of a family program, 3-1-1 and a Half, held at the CCA in 2017.

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