ABSTRACT
What can ‘tactical urbanism’ offer cities under extreme stress from rapid population growth, intensifying industrial restructuring, inadequate social and physical infrastructures, rising levels of class polarisation, insufficiently resourced public institutions, proliferating environmental disasters, and growing social unrest? Reflections on speculative interventions by teams of architects and their design proposals for six of the world’s megacities – Hong Kong, Istanbul, Lagos, Mumbai, New York, and Rio – presents the critical concerns regarding this oft-cited method within urban design and placemaking.
