The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism : Normalising Precarity in Austerity London /
Ferreri, Mara
The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism : Normalising Precarity in Austerity London / Mara Ferreri. - 1 online resource (194 p.) - Cities and Cultures ; 8 .
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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
9789048535828
10.1515/9789048535828 doi
Contemporary Society.
Film, Media, and Communication.
Politics and Government.
Sociology and Social History.
Urban Cultures.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development.
pop-up, temporary urbanism, architecture, art, activism, London.
The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism : Normalising Precarity in Austerity London / Mara Ferreri. - 1 online resource (194 p.) - Cities and Cultures ; 8 .
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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
9789048535828
10.1515/9789048535828 doi
Contemporary Society.
Film, Media, and Communication.
Politics and Government.
Sociology and Social History.
Urban Cultures.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development.
pop-up, temporary urbanism, architecture, art, activism, London.