Taking Agency in Urban Projects

In this chapter, the speaker discusses their motivation for getting involved in local conversations about urban projects and shares their strategy for speaking at city council meetings. They also talk about their experience with improving the city by taking matters into their own hands, including a story about secretly installing a temporary wooden guardrail and creating a fake organization. The chapter explores the tension between wanting ordinary people to have agency in their city and the frustration with the public sector for not addressing the problems.