Gordon C.C. Douglas (Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Dire

Broschiertes Buch

The Help-Yourself City

Legitimacy and Inequality in DIY Urbanism

Beschreibung

In The Help-Yourself City, Gordon Douglas looks closely at the people who take urban planning into their own hands, dubbed "do-it-yourself urban design" and exposes the ways that DIY urban design are increasingly celebrated and appropriated into economic development efforts that perpetuate cycles of inequality for disadvantaged communities.

Autor

Gordon Douglas is Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at San José State University in California, where he is Director of the Institute for Metropolitan Studies. Born in England and raised in Northern California, he has also lived in Chicago, London, Los Angeles, and New York.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9780190691325
• ISBN-10: 0190691328
• Artikelnr.: 49375119