0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Landscape art & architecture

Buy Now

Skateboarding, Space and the City - Architecture and the Body (Hardcover, Revised) Loot Price: R4,591
Discovery Miles 45 910
Skateboarding, Space and the City - Architecture and the Body (Hardcover, Revised): Iain Borden

Skateboarding, Space and the City - Architecture and the Body (Hardcover, Revised)

Iain Borden

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R4,591 Discovery Miles 45 910 | Repayment Terms: R430 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

Skateboarders are an increasingly common feature of the urban environment - recent estimates total 40 million world-wide. We are all aware of their often extraordinary talent and manoeuvres on the city streets. This book is the first detailed study of the urban phenomenon of skateboarding. It looks at skateboarding history from the surf-beaches of California in the 1950s, through the purpose-built skateparks of the 1970s, to the street-skating of the present day and shows how skateboarders experience and understand the city through their sport. Dismissive of authority and convention, skateboarders suggest that the city is not just a place for working and shopping but a true pleasure-ground, a place where the human body, emotions and energy can be expressed to the full.
The huge skateboarding subculture that revolves around graphically-designed clothes and boards, music, slang and moves provides a rich resource for exploring issues of gender, race, class, sexuality and the family. As the author demonstrates, street-style skateboarding, especially characteristic of recent decades, conducts a performative critique of architecture, the city and capitalism. Anyone interested in the history and sociology of sport, urban geography or architecture will find this book riveting.

General

Imprint: Berg Publishers
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: April 2001
First published: April 2001
Authors: Iain Borden
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 318
Edition: Revised
ISBN-13: 978-1-85973-488-9
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Landscape art & architecture > General
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities
Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Cycling, skateboarding, rollerblading > Rollerblading & in-line skating
Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Cycling, skateboarding, rollerblading > Skateboarding & snakeboarding
Promotions
LSN: 1-85973-488-X
Barcode: 9781859734889

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Wander
Dr Bill Thompson Paperback R379 Discovery Miles 3 790
A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of…
Andrew Jackson Downing Paperback R751 Discovery Miles 7 510
Boundaries and Restricted Places - The…
Balkiz Yapicioglu, Konstantinos Lalenis Hardcover R3,481 Discovery Miles 34 810
Norwich Historic Churches - As Part of…
David Luckhurst Paperback R330 Discovery Miles 3 300
Culture & Commerce - The Royal Academy…
Charles Landry Paperback R326 Discovery Miles 3 260
Abandoned Brisbane: Our Lost Heritage
Jay Millard Paperback R482 Discovery Miles 4 820
Global architecture for…
Pedro Luengo Paperback R3,013 Discovery Miles 30 130
Abandoned Melbourne: Lockdown
Gavin John Paperback R482 Discovery Miles 4 820
Stealing Home - Los Angeles, the…
Eric Nusbaum Paperback R496 R464 Discovery Miles 4 640
A History of Street Networks - from…
Laurence Aurbach Hardcover R855 Discovery Miles 8 550
How to Read Towns and Cities - A Crash…
Jonathan Glancey Paperback R431 Discovery Miles 4 310
Creating Cities/Building Cities…
Peter K. Kresl Hardcover R2,992 Discovery Miles 29 920

See more

Partners