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The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism : Normalising Precarity in Austerity London / Mara Ferreri.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cities and Cultures ; 8Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (194 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789048535828
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Temporary urbanism: a situated approach -- 2. The entangled field of temporary urbanism -- 3. ‘Not a pop-up!’ -- 4. Staging temporary spaces -- 5. Planning a temporary city of on-demand communities -- 6. The normalisation of temporariness -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Temporary urbanism: a situated approach -- 2. The entangled field of temporary urbanism -- 3. ‘Not a pop-up!’ -- 4. Staging temporary spaces -- 5. Planning a temporary city of on-demand communities -- 6. The normalisation of temporariness -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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