For the People, By the People
A Visual Story of the DIY City
by Afaina de Jong

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Author(s)

Afaina de Jong

Publisher, year

Amsterdam : Ultra de la Rue Publishing, 2012

Scope

150 p., illustrated, 28 cm.

ISBN

9789081811507

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For the People, By the People is a visual story about how people influence change in the city. The collapse of faith in top-down planning has been followed by a renewed interest in the self-generating wisdom of bottom-up urban initiatives. What does it mean when people act as the urban change agents that direct the life and death of the world’s cities?

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Person as subject

Afaina de Jong

Location

Informal Use of the City