UID:
almahu_9949641763902882
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 203 pages) :
,
color illustrations.
ISBN:
9781003456070
,
1003456073
,
9781000989649
,
100098964X
,
9781000989618
,
1000989615
Series Statement:
Space, materiality, and the normative
Content:
"This landmark book focuses entirely on urban surfaces, on exploring their authorship and management, and their role in struggles for the right to the city. Graffiti, pristine walls, advertising posters, and municipal signage all compete on city surfaces to establish and imprint their values on our environments. It is the first time that the surfacescapes of our cities are granted the entire attention of a book, as material, visual, and legal territories. The book includes a critical history of graffiti and street art as contested surface discourses; and argues for surfaces as sites of resistance against private property, neoliberal creativity, and the imposition of urban order. It also proposes a 7-point manual for a semiotics of urban surfaces, laying the ground for a new discipline: surface studies. Page after page, and layer after layer, surfaces become porous and political, and emerge as key spatial conditions for re-thinking and re-practicing urban dwelling and spatial justice. They become what the author terms the surface commons. The book will appeal to a wide readership across the disciplines of urban studies, architectural theory and design, graffiti, street art and public art, criminology, semiotics, visual culture, and urban and legal geography. It will also serve as a tool for city scholars, policy makers, artists, and vandals, to disrupt existing imaginaries of order, justice, and visibility in cities"--
Note:
Surface semiotics : a manual for knowing surfaces -- Beyond art and crime : a critical history of graffiti and street art -- Law and graffiti : property, crime, and the surface commons -- Leake Street London : legal walls and deep surfaces -- Conclusion : cultural heritage and the right to the surface city
Additional Edition:
Print version: Andron, Sabina. Urban surfaces, graffiti, and the right to the city Abingdon, Oxon [UK] ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 ISBN 9781032016559
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781003456070
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003456070
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