UID:
almafu_9959803279402883
Format:
1 online resource (194 p.)
ISBN:
9789048535828
Series Statement:
Cities and Cultures ; 8
Content:
Temporary urbanism has become an established marker of city making after the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. The book offers a critical exploration of its emergence and establishment as a seductive discourse and as an entangled field of urban practice encompassing architecture, visual and performative arts, urban regeneration and planning. Drawing on seven years of semi-ethnographic research in London, it explores the politics of temporariness at time of austerity from a situated analysis of neighbourhood transformation and wider cultural and economic shifts. Through a sympathetic, longitudinal engagement with projects and practitioners, the book tests the power of aesthetic and cultural interventions and highlights tensions between the promise of practices of dissenting vacant space re-appropriation, and their practical foreclosure. Against the normalisation of ephemerality, it develops a critique of temporary urbanism as a glamorisation of the anticipatory politics of precarity, transforming subjectivities and imaginaries of urban action.
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Table of Contents --
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Acknowledgements --
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1. Temporary urbanism: a situated approach --
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2. The entangled field of temporary urbanism --
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3. 'Not a pop-up!' --
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4. Staging temporary spaces --
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5. Planning a temporary city of on-demand communities --
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6. The normalisation of temporariness --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9789048535828
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048535828
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048535828
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048535828
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048535828
