Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Series editor's preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction. Youth sports and the urban skateboarding landscape
  • 1. Neo-liberalism and the new urban spaces of skateboarding
  • 2. Social enterprise skateboarding organizations: The installation of new public-private spaces for youth and community development
  • 3. "They were all about police, police, police. We don't need police, we need parents": Bay City's adult organized social space
  • 4. "I want the platform and everybody's welcome": Oakland's creation of skateboarding "Hood cred"
  • 5. "There's no end to the pop ups, the towers, the high rises, the mid rises, the Samsung's and the Oracle's": Skateboarding in San Jose, "The capital of Silicon Valley"
  • 6. The use of skate parks to create new spaces of values for youth, families, and urban communities.