The process through which it was created is an instance of what’s called co-design: the ideas belong to the group, and the end product is the result of an interactive social process. It’s also an instance of what design researcher Ezio Manzini calls “diffuse design”—where the work is “put into play by non-experts with natural designing capacity,” a

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We still have decades of auto-dependent land use trends to offset, but small shifts in the way our received infrastructure is designed can go a long way to making our neighborhoods more walkable — and in turn healthier, more affordable, and more vibrant.