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The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism - Normalising Precarity in Austerity London (Hardcover)
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The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism - Normalising Precarity in Austerity London (Hardcover)
Series: Cities and Cultures
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Temporary urbanism has become a distinctive feature of urban life
after the 2008 global financial crisis. This book offers a critical
exploration of its emergence and establishment as a seductive
discourse and as an entangled field of practice encompassing
architecture, visual and performative arts, urban regeneration
policies and planning. Drawing on seven years of semi-ethnographic
research, it explores the politics of temporariness from a situated
analysis of neighbourhood transformation, media representations and
wider political and cultural shifts in austerity London. Through a
longitudinal engagement with projects and practitioners, the book
tests the power of aesthetic and cultural interventions and
highlights tensions between the promise of vacant space
re-appropriation and its commodification. Against the normalisation
of ephemerality, it presents a critique of the permanence of
temporary urbanism as a glamorisation of the anticipatory politics
of precarity which are transforming cities, subjectivities and
imaginaries of urban action.
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