Urban Reclamation: Place, Value, Use: The Nine Mile Run Project

Ecology and the Ethics and Aesthetics of Collaboration: The Case of Nine Mile Run

“…10 The three artists observed that the city's master plan and the discussion around it focused almost exclusively on the commercial housing development, and that the public had no part in the decision-making process. The artists' view was that "the existing market based design paradigm" was incapable of sustaining the complex multi-party discourse "necessary to produce the best solutions for these complicated problems," 11 and they concluded that a full consideration of public space was very much needed. Continuing to work with John Stephen, they got a meeting with the assistant director of Pittsburgh City Planning.…”