Around the globe, individuals and groups are creating 'insurgent public spaces' which challenge assumptions of what makes an urban space and how it is used by the public. With nearly twenty cross-cultural case studies, this text sheds new light on the concepts of guerrilla urbanism.
Around the globe, individuals and groups are creating 'insurgent public spaces' which challenge assumptions of what makes an urban space and how it is used by the public. With nearly twenty cross-cultural case studies, this text sheds new light on the concepts of guerrilla urbanism.
Jeffrey Hou is Chair and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington, Seattle. His research and practice focus on design activism and engaging marginalized social groups in the making of public space. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Planning and M.Arch. from University of California, Berkeley.
Inhaltsangabe
1. (Not) Your Everyday Public Space Part 1: Appropriating 2. Dancing in the Streets of Beijing: Improvised Uses within the Urban System 3. Latino Urbanism in Los Angeles: A Model for Urban Improvisation and Reinvention 4. Taking Place: Rebar's Absurd Tactics in Generous Urbanism Part 2: Reclaiming 5. eXperimentcity: Culturing and Publicizing Sustainable Development of Berlin's Freiräume 6. Re-City, Tokyo: Putting "Publicness" into the Urban Building Stocks 7. Claiming Residual Spaces in the Heterogeneous City Part 3: Pluralizing 8. Claiming Latino Space: Building Cultural Capacity in the Public Realm 9. ' Night Market' in Seattle: Community Eventscape and the Remaking of Public Space 10. Making Places of Fusion and Resistance: the Experiences of Immigrant Women in Taiwanese Townships 11. How Outsiders Find Home in the City: Chung Shan in Taipei Part 4: Transgressing 12. Machizukuri House and Its Expanding Networks: Making New Public Realm in Private Homes 13. Niwaroju: Private Gardens Serving the Public Realm 14. Farmhouses as Urban/Rural Public Space Part 5: Uncovering 15. Urban Archives: Public Memories of Everyday Places 16. Funny...It Doesn't Look Like Insurgent Space: the San Francisco Bureau of Urban Secrets and the Practice of History as a Public Art 17. Mapping the Space of Desire: Brothel as a City Landmark 18. Spatial Limbo: Re-inscribing Landscapes in Temporal Suspension Part 6: Contesting 19. Public Space Activism, Toronto and Vancouver: Using the Banner of Public Space to Build Capacity and Activate Change 20. Urban Agriculture in the Making of Insurgent Spaces in Los Angeles and Seattle 21. When Overwhelming Needs Meets Underwhelming Prospects: Sustaining Community Open Space Activism in East St. Louis
1. (Not) Your Everyday Public Space Part 1: Appropriating 2. Dancing in the Streets of Beijing: Improvised Uses within the Urban System 3. Latino Urbanism in Los Angeles: A Model for Urban Improvisation and Reinvention 4. Taking Place: Rebar's Absurd Tactics in Generous Urbanism Part 2: Reclaiming 5. eXperimentcity: Culturing and Publicizing Sustainable Development of Berlin's Freiräume 6. Re-City, Tokyo: Putting "Publicness" into the Urban Building Stocks 7. Claiming Residual Spaces in the Heterogeneous City Part 3: Pluralizing 8. Claiming Latino Space: Building Cultural Capacity in the Public Realm 9. ' Night Market' in Seattle: Community Eventscape and the Remaking of Public Space 10. Making Places of Fusion and Resistance: the Experiences of Immigrant Women in Taiwanese Townships 11. How Outsiders Find Home in the City: Chung Shan in Taipei Part 4: Transgressing 12. Machizukuri House and Its Expanding Networks: Making New Public Realm in Private Homes 13. Niwaroju: Private Gardens Serving the Public Realm 14. Farmhouses as Urban/Rural Public Space Part 5: Uncovering 15. Urban Archives: Public Memories of Everyday Places 16. Funny...It Doesn't Look Like Insurgent Space: the San Francisco Bureau of Urban Secrets and the Practice of History as a Public Art 17. Mapping the Space of Desire: Brothel as a City Landmark 18. Spatial Limbo: Re-inscribing Landscapes in Temporal Suspension Part 6: Contesting 19. Public Space Activism, Toronto and Vancouver: Using the Banner of Public Space to Build Capacity and Activate Change 20. Urban Agriculture in the Making of Insurgent Spaces in Los Angeles and Seattle 21. When Overwhelming Needs Meets Underwhelming Prospects: Sustaining Community Open Space Activism in East St. Louis
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