Urban Acupuncture

* Special issue: Journal of Urban Technology, Urban Acupuncture - Routledge

URL = http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjut20/current#.VidEcX4rLIU

Summary

"Finnish architect Marco Casagrande developed Urban Acupuncture as an urban environmentalism theory during work with an illegal settlement in Taipei, Taiwan, named Treasure Hill. Casagrande noted that the area was full of human energy, but through government interventions, the energy had been turned negative and had to be redirected towards construction: “like turning over the compost that has been the smelly part of the farm just to become the most fertile top soil. I was careful to manipulate these hidden energy flows and the small elements that I introduced to Treasure Hill can be compared to the needles in acupuncture. I call this urban acupuncture.”