After the 2011 uprising against President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, Avenue Habib Bourguiba became the stage for Tunisia's politics and never-ending protests, projecting both the hopes and anxieties of a nation bracing for change.
Over four months, these students from the Technical University of Vienna designed and created a model city for the same price as the bailout in one of Vienna's main squares, Karlsplatz, as a protest project that has captured the attention of the country.
This month, despite the protests, the project was granted city approval.
Two days later, on 1 July, hundreds of student protesters assembled in front of municipal government buildings to protest the project.
This one erupted that summer, when 1,253 people went to jail for protesting the project.
Mr. Allen last year made a short film to protest the project.
The school and hospital districts, and the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas, are also protesting the project.
Residents protested the project, and the commissioners deemed its scale out of character with the rest of the neighborhood.
HIS life is a fast-moving swirl of punk rock stagecraft, two-wheeled protests, film projects and occasional bits of street theater.
Over the years the scheme has run into environmental protests, its projected cost has doubled to $20 billion and its completion date has receded.
