ABSTRACT
The recent success of tactical urban practices has stimulated their depoliticization and aestheticization. From being culturally closer to anti-establishment activism, tactical urbanism has turned into a primarily realistic strategy praised for its economic efficiency, gladly accepted by politicians and planning authorities, and favourably exhibited in mainstream museums. This chapter examines the outcome of this transformation, questioning how these practices may have derived into a new form of representation designed to display the social authenticity of the bottom-up connection between citizens and planned city.
