Insurgent Public Space: guerrilla urbanism and the remaking of contemporary cities. / edited by Jeffrey Hou. txt
Idioma: Inglés Oxon : Routledge, 2010Descripción: xii, 276 p. ill. ; 26 cmTipo de contenido:- text
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Winner of the EDRA book prize for 2012.
In cities around the world, individuals and groups are reclaiming and creating urban sites, temporary spaces and informal gathering places. These 'insurgent public spaces' challenge conventional views of how urban areas are defined and used, and how they can transform the city environment. No longer confined to traditional public areas like neighbourhood parks and public plazas, these guerrilla spaces express the alternative social and spatial relationships in our changing cities.
With nearly twenty illustrated case studies, this volume shows how instances of insurgent public space occur across the world. Examples range from community gardening in Seattle and Los Angeles, street dancing in Beijing, to the transformation of parking spaces into temporary parks in San Francisco.
Drawing on the experiences and knowledge of individuals extensively engaged in the actual implementation of these spaces, Insurgent Public Space is a unique cross-disciplinary approach to the study of public space use, and how it is utilized in the contemporary, urban world. Appealing to professionals and students in both urban studies and more social courses, Hou has brought together valuable commentaries on an area of urbanism which has, up until now, been largely ignored.
Index
Bibliography
Contents :
Notes on contributors viii --
Preface xi --
Chapter 1 ( Not ) your everyday public space Jeffrey Hou 1 --
PART ONE APPROPRIATING 19 :
Chapter 2 Dancing in the streets of Beijing : improvised uses within the urban system Caroline Chen 21 --
Chapter 3 Latino urbanism in Los Angeles : a model for urban improvisation and reinvention James Rojas 36 --
Chapter 4 Taking place : Rebar ' s absurd tactics in generous urbanism Blaine Merker 45 --
PART TWO RECLAIMING 59 :
Chapter 5 eXperimentcity : cultivating sustainable development in Berlin' s Freiräume Michael A . LaFond 61 --
Chapter 6 Re city , Tokyo : putting " publicness " into the urban building stocks Shin Aiba and Osamu Nishida , 71 --
Chapter 7 Claiming residual spaces in the heterogeneous city Erick Villagomez 81 --
PART THREE PLURALIZING 97 :
Chapter 8 Claiming Latino space : cultural insurgency in the public realm Michael Rios 99 --
Chapter 9 " Night market " in Seattle : community eventscape and the reconstruction of public space Jeffrey Hou 111 --
Chapter 10 Making places of fusion and resistance : the experiences of immigrant women in Taiwanese townships Hung - Ying Chen and Jia - He Lin 123 --
Chapter 11 How outsiders find home in the city : ChungShan in Taipei Pina Wu 135 --
PART FOUR TRANSGRESSING 147 :
Chapter 12 Machizukuri house and its expanding network : making a new public realm in private homes Yasuyoshi Hayashi 149 --
Chaper 13 Niwa – roju : private gardens serving the public realm Isami Kinoshita 159 --
Chapter 14 Farmhouses as urban / rural public space Sawako Ono , Ryoko Sato , and Mima Nishiyama 168 --
PART FIVE UNCOVERING 179 :
Chapter 15 Urban Archives : public memories of everyday places Irina Gendelman , Tom Dobrowolsky , and Giorgia Aiello 181 --
Chapter 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 Jeannene Przyblyski 194 --
Chapter 17 Mapping the space of desire : brothel as a city landmark Wenminglo in Taipei , Yung - Teen Annie Chiu 204 --
Chapter 18 Spatial limbo : reinscribing landscapes in temporal suspension Min Jay Kang 213 --
PART SIX CONTESTING 225 :
Chapter 19 Public space activism , Toronto and Vancouver : using the banner of public space to build capacity and activate change Andrew Pask 227 --
Chapter 20 Urban agriculture in the making of insurgent spaces in Los Angeles and Seattle Teresa M . Mares and Devon G . Peña 241 --
Chapter 21 When overwhelming needs meet underwhelming prospects : sustaining community open space activism in East St . Louis , Laura Lawson and Janni Sorensen 255 --
Index 267 --
"In cities around the world, individuals and groups are reclaiming and creating urban sites, temporary spaces and informal gathering places. These ‘insurgent public spaces’ challenge conventional views of how urban areas are defined and used, and how they can transform the city environment. No longer confined to traditional public areas like neighbourhood parks and public plazas, these guerrilla spaces express the alternative social and spatial relationships in our changing cities. With nearly twenty illustrated case studies, this volume shows how instances of insurgent public space occur across the world. Examples range from community gardening in Seattle and Los Angeles, street dancing in Beijing, to the transformation of parking spaces into temporary parks in San Francisco. Drawing on the experiences and knowledge of individuals extensively engaged in the actual implementation of these spaces, Insurgent Public Space is a unique cross-disciplinary approach to the study of public space use, and how it is utilized in the contemporary, urban world. Appealing to professionals and students in both urban studies and more social courses, Hou has brought together valuable commentaries on an area of urbanism which has, up until now, been largely ignored." --
Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics
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.