Is it possible to transform one's city by making it more beautiful? Definitely yes, because if it is true that in recent years we have seen some urban centers worsen due to illegal building, poor maintenance and sometimes rudeness of citizens, it is also true that many initiatives have been born that try to change this situation.
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Is it possible to transform your city by making it more beautiful? Definitely yes, because if it is true that in recent years we have seen some urban centers worsen due to illegal building, bad maintenance and sometimes rudeness of citizens, it is also true that many were born initiatives they try to change this situation.
Proposals that often come from the more active citizenship, the one that recreates beauty in degraded areas, the one that puts us inside a hole a flower, what they consider their neighborhood to be own home, loving and respecting him.
Then there is a whole job done by associations, by artists and various movements, the civil society who puts his face to return to his own places a piece of lost dignity. Here then ten moves to transform your city and make it more beautiful.
Index
Street Art
Un touch of life and color where the city gray has taken over, this is the mission of street art which, when done with knowledge of the facts, restores beauty to the most degraded areas of the city. A movement that has taken hold in everyone countries of the world and is often used as a business leisure and socialization, as for example in Portugal where seniors they get close to contemporary art and move away from solitude.
Read also: A map of street art in Rome: the streets become a museum (PHOTO AND VIDEO)
Guerrilla Knitting
Who does not remember the story of Grace, the 104-year-old granny that with her own knitting color the city? Trees, telephone booths, metal nets they have been transformed into intertwining colors. And more benches, fences and piers that have become characteristic and colorful artistic pieces.
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Urban libraries (bookcrossing)
An idea that is good for you to the environment because, maybe it recovers unused spaces and his own culture. What's better than reading a book sitting in a park in the open air? TO New York for example, the old telephone booths have been turned into bookcases where you can get them a book on loan for free.
Read also: Bookcrossing: books sprout from trees in Berlin
Collect dog poop
La cleaning of our city is also ours civic duty. Often, however, dog owners forget about it and leave the needs of their own on the street 4-legged friends. Let's say, that more than increasing the supervision and controls, we should learn to respect our city.
Read also: Dog poop express: in Spain they send it back to the sender
Don't throw away cigarette butts
There are many on the market pocket ashtrays, cheap and also with different packaging, in short, suitable for all needs. Does not exist therefore only one reason, why the butt should end up on the street or even worse on the beach.
Read also: #neatstreets, a brilliant idea to reduce cigarette butts on the streets
Cultivate an urban vegetable garden
More and more citizens are giving life to the so-called in their neighborhood shared urban gardens which, in addition to representing a resource (it self-produces food at Km0) give a touch of green to cities. Once the problem of pollution and contamination has been amortized, do not remain to arm yourself with a hoe and plant seasonal vegetables.
Read also: Urban gardens: in Palermo a shared garden for social integration
Adopt a park
There are many associations that take back abandoned spaces and transform them into places of socialization and entertainment even for animal friends. In Rome, for example 100 Paws create created something more of a fenced-in place for dogs to run.
Read also: 100 Zampe citizens adopt and redevelop a park in Rome for dogs
Guerrilla garden
Another super successful experiment: guerrilla garden that transforms the holes that haunt the lives of pedestrians, motorists and cyclists, in delightful miniature flower gardens. For the series when we say at least we plug the holes.
Read also: Guerrilla garden: the man who transformed holes into mini flower gardens
Plug the holes
What do Steve Wheen, better known as The Pothole Gardener, have in common Juliana Santacruz Herrera and Jim Bachor? All three grace the streets plugging the holes, to the delight of all motorists!
Read also: Jim Bachor: the artist who repairs the potholes in the streets of Chicago with mosaics
Cleaning up the walls and ... more
From a form of "rebellion" to urban decay to real movement. Retake Roma brings together citizens who want to enhancement of common areas and to spread the civic sense throughout the territory of the capital.
Read also: Retake Roma: the rebellion of civil citizenship
Dominella Trunfio
