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On View> MoMA tackles tactical urbanism with "Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities"

On View> MoMA tackles tactical urbanism with "Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities"

Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities
MoMA
11 West 53rd Street, New York, New York
November 22–May 10, 2015

The population of the planet is growing quickly and an increasing number of people are living in urban areas. The resultant demographic changes, including an increase in urban poverty, pose challenges and opportunities for architects and planners in the decades ahead. How to address such a complex and global change is a question explored in the MoMA exhibition Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities.

The exhibit displays proposals from six interdisciplinary teams of practitioners and researchers who studied how tactical urbanism can be deployed in New York, Rio de Janeiro, Mumbai, Lagos, Istanbul, and Hong Kong to create more vibrant and equitable cities. The proposals challenge current assumptions about the relationships between formal and informal, bottom-up and top-down urban development, and address potential changes in the roles architects and urban designers might assume. The emergent forms of tactical urbanism represented here are direct responses to alterations in the nature of public space, housing, mobility, spatial justice, environmental conditions, and other major issues in near-future urban contexts.

 

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