Insurgent Public Space (eBook, ePUB)

Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities
Redaktion: Hou, Jeffrey

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136988011
• Artikelnr.: 42983377

Autorenporträt

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