'Actions' explores how the design of contemporary cities can be described and informed by four key human actions: gardening, recycling, playing, walking. These are crucial actions determining the character of the contemporary urban environment.

The book investigates the relation of the city, not only with its own built environment, but also with a more complex range of social economic and environ-mental issues. Themes will include recent planning proposals connected with the production of food and the presence of urban agriculture; contemporary strategies for recycling garbage; the city with its urban fabric as a perfect new terrain of playground for skateboarding, biking, walking.

Contributing authors
Ocean Howell, David Thomson, Tali Hatuka, Richard Reynolds, Vikram Bath, Hans Ibelings, Debra Solomon, Jochen Becker, and others. 

French edition
This book is also published in an French edition. Click on the 'Actions: Comment s’approprier la ville' in the left column of this page to go to the French edition.

Exhibition
This publication accompanied the exhibition 'Actions' at the Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal (Canada), from 26 November 2008 to 19 April 2009. The exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City presents 99 actions that instigate positive change in contemporary cities around the world (http://cca-actions.org/). The exhibition  traveled to the Graham Foundation in Chicago (US), and was on show from 16 October 2009 to 13 March 2010.