Citizen-Led Change with Demetrio Scopelliti

My guest this week is Demetrio Scopelliti, who leads Piazze Aperte (Open Squares) for the City of Milan.

Demetrio describes himself as like Robin Hood: taking space from cars to give back to people using ping pong tables and street paint.

In today’s episode we discuss why tactical urbanism enables a city to be more radical, the fact that he welcomes conflict as an essential part of change and his advice to a city that thinks it might work in Milan but would never work here…