The project is a counterproposal to the deficiencies of London’s Business Improvement Districts as quasi-governmental organisations with a policy-making power in regards to public realm, while introducing series of invisible public-private control systems and physical divisions. It challenges the dominant institutional control of the Southbank-Waterloo area, by establishing a civic network of participatory spatial invasions and spontaneous forms of engagement. On social, physical and programmatic level, this new infrastructure, entitled CID for Civic Improvement District, is invading into existing institutions and creating key points of confrontation. These new subdivisions are forcing the BIDs to adopt a more balanced outlook between economic growth and civic improvement. The project challenges the notion of opportunity growth areas while questioning who the advertised growth is for, while physically breaking the single-use areas and combatting land-banking by establishing new types of rights of way as divisions of the current ownership lines. Breaking down institutional control requires a change of the current policy mechanisms and the restoration of local governance to manage the space while involving the users, which becomes a form of bargaining capital for renegotiation of boundaries, that allows the existence of BIDs, without sacrificing the civic interest.