Sublime

By October 2018, 480 pacts had been implemented, from community gardens to tool libraries, from murals to repurposing empty buildings as community centres.

now Better Block is an international movement. Roberts calls this work ‘guerrilla bottom-up place-making’.

I discovered that there were people the world over asking questions, large and small, about how things could be otherwise in schools, in neighbourhoods, in our relationship to nature, in our approach to health care, in how we spend our time and attention, even using it as the basis for reimagining the economic and democratic realities of their citi

Any national approach to rebuilding the imagination must take access to nature seriously, and must also recognise the power of bringing more nature to where people live, to a ‘rewilding’ of our towns, cities and neighbourhoods.

Herman Daly.