The intent of the course is to explore, encourage and liberate the use of public space - the more an unappealing maze in an underserved community, the more the challenge. As blessed by an enlightened department director, Stephanie Landregan, the exercise has been labeled by peripatetic students, bureaucrats and community activists, “guerilla planning,” as in subversive. Over the past several years we have challenged a parade of young and mid-career professionals in quest of a landscape architecture license to develop plans for a variety of derelict, fringe and generally forlorn spaces. This has included the grist of gritty sidewalks, unfriendly streets, forbidding and trashed vacant lots, and abandoned alleys and rail lines.
— The Joys and Surprises of Teaching “Guerilla Planning” | Planetizen
