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Insurgent Public Space - Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities (Hardcover)
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Insurgent Public Space - Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities (Hardcover)
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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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