Winner of the EDRA book prize for 2012.
In cities around the world, individuals and groups are
reclaiming and creating urban sites, temporary spaces and informal
gathering places. These insurgent public spaces challenge
conventional views of how urban areas are defined and used, and how
they can transform the city environment. No longer confined to
traditional public areas like neighbourhood parks and public
plazas, these guerrilla spaces express the alternative social and
spatial relationships in our changing cities.
With nearly twenty illustrated case studies, this volume shows
how instances of insurgent public space occur across the world.
Examples range from community gardening in Seattle and Los Angeles,
street dancing in Beijing, to the transformation of parking spaces
into temporary parks in San Francisco.
Drawing on the experiences and knowledge of individuals
extensively engaged in the actual implementation of these spaces,
Insurgent Public Space is a unique cross-disciplinary approach to
the study of public space use, and how it is utilized in the
contemporary, urban world. Appealing to professionals and students
in both urban studies and more social courses, Hou has brought
together valuable commentaries on an area of urbanism which has, up
until now, been largely ignored. "
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