Insurgent public space guerrilla urbanism and the remaking of contemporary cities 1st Edition by Jeffrey Hou ISBN 978-1136987977 1136987977

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ISBN 10:  1136987977

ISBN 13: 978-1136987977

Author: Jeffrey Hou 

Winner of the EDRA book prize for 2012.

In cities around the world, individuals and groups are reclaiming and creating urban sites, temporary spaces and informal gathering places. These ‘insurgent public spaces’ challenge conventional views of how urban areas are defined and used, and how they can transform the city environment. No longer confined to traditional public areas like neighbourhood parks and public plazas, these guerrilla spaces express the alternative social and spatial relationships in our changing cities.

With nearly twenty illustrated case studies, this volume shows how instances of insurgent public space occur across the world. Examples range from community gardening in Seattle and Los Angeles, street dancing in Beijing, to the transformation of parking spaces into temporary parks in San Francisco.

Drawing on the experiences and knowledge of individuals extensively engaged in the actual implementation of these spaces, Insurgent Public Space is a unique cross-disciplinary approach to the study of public space use, and how it is utilized in the contemporary, urban world. Appealing to professionals and students in both urban studies and more social courses, Hou has brought together valuable commentaries on an area of urbanism which has, up until now, been largely ignored.

Table of contents: 

1. (Not) Your Everyday Public Space — Jeffrey Hou

Part 1: Appropriating
2. Dancing in the Streets of Beijing: Improvised Uses within the Urban System — Caroline Chen
3. Latino Urbanism in Los Angeles: A Model for Urban Improvisation and Reinvention — James Rojas
4. Taking Place: Rebar’s Absurd Tactics in Generous Urbanism — Blaine Merker for Rebar

Part 2: Reclaiming
5. eXperimentcity: Culturing + Publicizing Sustainable Development of Berlin’s Freiräume — Michael A. LaFond
6. Re-City, Tokyo: Putting “Publicness” into the Urban Building Stocks — Shin Aiba and Osamu Nishida
7. Claiming Residual Spaces in the Heterogeneous City — Erick Villagomez

Part 3: Pluralizing
8. Claiming Latino Space: Building Cultural Capacity in the Public Realm — Michael Rios
9. ‘Night Market’ in Seattle: Community Eventscape and the Remaking of Public Space — Jeffrey Hou
10. Making Places of Fusion and Resistance: the Experiences of Immigrant Women in Taiwanese Townships — Hung-Ying Chen and Jia-He Lin
11. How Outsiders Find Home in the City: Chung Shan in Taipei — Pina Wu

Part 4: Transgressing
12. Machizukuri House and Its Expanding Networks: Making New Public Realm in Private Homes — Yasuyoshi Hayashi
13. Niwaroju: Private Gardens Serving the Public Realm — Isami Kinoshita
14. Farmhouses as Urban/Rural Public Space — Sawako Ono, Ryoko Sato, and Mima Nishiyama

Part 5: Uncovering
15. Urban Archives: Public Memories of Everyday Places — Irina Gendelman, Tom Dobrowolsky, and Giorgia Aiello
16. Funny…It Doesn’t Look Like Insurgent Space: the San Francisco Bureau of Urban Secrets and the Practice of History as a Public Art — Jeannene Przyblyski
17. Mapping the Space of Desire: Brothel as a City Landmark — Yung-Teen Annie Chiu
18. Spatial Limbo: Re-inscribing Landscapes in Temporal Suspension — Min Jay Kang

Part 6: Contesting
19. Public Space Activism, Toronto and Vancouver: Using the Banner of Public Space to Build Capacity and Activate Change — Andrew Pask
20. Urban Agriculture in the Making of Insurgent Spaces in Los Angeles and Seattle — Teresa M. Mares and Devon G. Peña
21. When Overwhelming Needs Meets Underwhelming Prospects: Sustaining Community Open Space Activism in East St. Louis — Laura Lawson and Janni Sorensen

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