2024-12-22T07:38:47-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/18490772/editor-s-picks-226 Nam Henderson 2011-08-28T18:46:16-04:00 >2011-08-29T13:14:31-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/7a/7a5uqikrmetmpp9l.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p> Leagues and Legions (aka LGNLGN, a think tank at the intersection of architecture and publishing) and the Institute for Urban Design (IfUD) are asking critics, practitioners, academics, community organizers, and the general public to weigh in on one of four questions dealing with issues of tactical urbanism. Each question will tackle a particular theme: the public, professional practice, evaluation, and failure. The City Sessions questions will posted online in the weeks leading up to Urban Design Week and culminate in a live discussion of the crowdsourced responses on September 18 at Parsons School of Design from 5-7 p.m.</p> <p> Archinector's <a href="http://archinect.com/people/cover/1880444/quilian-riano" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Quilian Riano</a>&nbsp;is curating question #3 on tactics and the design professions and will be guiding that conversation over the next few weeks.</p> <p> For your information tactical urbanism:&nbsp;"<strong>uses the city as a site of experimentation, deploying pop-up parks, vacant retail reuse, or unsanctioned street furniture as way to reprogram the urban realm. The pra...</strong></p>