Skateboarding LA : Inside Professional Street Skateboarding.

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Snyder, Gregory J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2009.
Series:Alternative criminology series.
Subjects:
Skateboarding > California > Los Angeles.
Skateboarding.
Planche à roulettes (Sport) > Californie > Los Angeles.
Planche à roulettes (Sport)
Skateboarding
California > Los Angeles
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • SKATEBOARDING LA
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • Professional Street Skateboarding
  • Subculture and Self-Preservation
  • Skateboarding and Urban Space
  • Overview
  • PART I. IMMERSION
  • 1. Skateboarding and the City
  • A Quick History of Skateboarding
  • Ollie, Nollie, Regular, Goofy: Trick Basics
  • Public Plazas: Filling the Voids
  • The â#x80;#x9C;LA Schoolâ#x80;#x9D; of Urban Sociology
  • Skateboarding Subculture
  • 2. Skate Spots
  • Scanning the Terrain
  • The Ethos of Progression
  • Excavating the City: Historic Skate SpotsSkate and Appreciate
  • 3. Skateboarding Basics: The Grammar of Skateboarding Tricks
  • Name That Trick: Stoner Plaza
  • Grammar Counts
  • Learning to Skateboard: Aaron Snyder
  • Troyâ#x80;#x99;s Story
  • Old Man Skateboarding
  • PART II. THE PROFESSIONAL WORLD
  • 4. Professional Street Skateboarding
  • The Skate Plaza at Stoner Park
  • Career Stoners
  • June 9, 2015
  • Shortyâ#x80;#x99;s and Darkstar: Aaron Snyder
  • Behind the Scenes at Street League Skateboarding
  • Street League Revisited: October 2, 2016
  • Skateboarding and the Subculture CareerThe Street Not Taken: Robbie McKinley
  • 5. The Production of Skateboarding Tricks
  • The Skater
  • The Photographer
  • The Filmer
  • RB Umali: The Filmerâ#x80;#x99;s Toolkit
  • The Skateboard Team
  • 6. Skateboarding as a Career
  • The City and the Subculture Career
  • Subcultural Enclaves
  • The Model of Subculture Profitability
  • The Ethnographic Imagination
  • Subculture Media and the Digital Turn
  • Pay Scales
  • The Vulnerable Careerists
  • PART III. SKATE SPOTS
  • 7. Skateboarding and Architecture
  • Skatersâ#x80;#x99; Response to Defensive DesignResisting Arrest
  • DIY Urban Design
  • DIY Skate Spots: Fixer Uppers
  • DIY Skate Spots: From the Ground Up
  • 8. Landmark Achievements: The Creation of Subcultural Landmarks
  • Urban Public Space
  • Spot Progression
  • The Carlsbad Gap
  • Profitable Spots
  • Defensible Space
  • PART IV. RESTSTANCE
  • 9. Skateboard Activism
  • The Courthouse: A History
  • Decriminalizing the Courthouse
  • Legalized Skateboarding: Day 1
  • Courthouse 2.0, Day 2
  • Go Skateboarding Day 2015
  • 10. Matt Gottwig: Circle Complete
  • CodaAppendix: Interview with Alec Beck, Transworld Magazine
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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