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Insurgent Public Space : Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities.

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 20 cross-cultural case studies, this text sheds fresh light on the concepts of guerrilla urbanism.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hou, Jeffrey, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Chapter 1 (Not) your everyday public space; Part One: Appropriating; Chapter 2 Dancing in the streets of Beijing: Improvised uses within the urban system; Chapter 3 Latino urbanism in Los Angeles: A model for urban improvisation and reinvention; Chapter 4 Taking place: Rebar's absurd tactics in generous urbanism; Part Two: Reclaiming; Chapter 5 eXperimentcity: Cultivating sustainable development in Berlin's Freirume; Chapter 6 Re-city, Tokyo: Putting "publicness" into the urban building stocks.
  • Chapter 7 Claiming residual spaces in the heterogeneous cityPart Three: Pluralizing; Chapter 8 Claiming Latino space: Cultural insurgency in the public realm; Chapter 9 "Night market" in Seattle: Community eventscape and the reconstruction of public space; Chapter 10 Making places of fusion and resistance: The experiences of immigrant women in Taiwanese townships; Chapter 11 How outsiders find home in the city: ChungShan in Taipei; Part Fou.