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BEYOND MITIGATION
Although mitigation can be seen as a strategy to address the acute impacts of the South Park community, it is still a framing that centers “the problems” and the falsehood that something is wrong or bad about South Park. Applying frameworks like Just Transition and Circular Economy shift the narrative towards systems-thinking and world-building.

This work is in service to the efforts towards permanantly removing the highway in South Park. However, given that the highway removal process will take at least 5 years to plan and design, let alone 10 years to begin breaking ground, Tactical Regeneration asks what can we begin to do now? How can we build off of existing community efforts to prepare the neighborhood for the future highway removal and co-create a just circular economy? How can this work serve as a series of test plots for what can be possible on a larger scale later?

TACTICAL: community led, ground-up, diy, planning-by-doing, prototyping, low-cost, intended to pressure government agencies

REGENERATION: away from an extractive economy, life-affirming/life-creating, waste as resource, justice , intentional re-organization, place-based, decentralized, culturally-relevant