A short history of tactical urbanism

From coning AVs to makeshift street signs, there's a long tradition of concerned citizens intervening in their urban environment

The other day I wrote about the San Francisco activists using traffic cones to disable driverless cars, ahead of an important vote today on the next phase in the program by the state regulator. I linked this to a long tradition of using “tactical urbanism” to improve the built environment and encourage citizen participation. And guess what! The CPUC pos…