Oakland Office of New Urban Mechanics

I haven't yet explored the offered links. However, government typically moves slowly and inefficiently and ineffectively because of all the formality and bureaucratic overhead, yes. Adding everything from all that necessary in order to just achieve what's blurrily described here may be questionable. Instead, NGOs are not necessarily hobbled as much nor in as many ways as actual jurisdictional government. Perhaps there is the more opportune zone for the experiments?