On Hannah Arendt, totalitarianism, and tactical urbanism.
"Tactical urbanism fights against loneliness, isolation, and ultimately totalitarianism because it is a practice of enacting real change in the world for its betterment, in community with others. Tactical urbanism is a bottom-up approach to improving our shared public space, things like planting guerilla gardens or building benches for bus stops."
"Tactical urbanism requires that we pay attention to the place around us and to the needs of our neighbors. And then it requires that we act on those observations. It requires a recognition of the ways that we are radically connected, not through the internet, but in our built environment. And it is a powerful demonstration of how we are able to affect change in the world, despite the quagmire and stagnation of our government, despite the impossible bureaucracies upon bureaucracies, despite the fracturing of public trust in one’s fellow human being."















