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Emmanuel Pratt

plan. In fact, the Chicago-based designer, artist, and urban planner says his work is in strident opposition to a top-down approach to city development. Instead, he believes in “urban acupuncture,” a theory that small-scale, local interventions, realized in conjunction with the people who live in the targeted area, can have positive effects that resonate throughout a

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