Title & Author:

Insurgent public space : guerrilla urbanism and the remaking of contemporary cities / edited by Jeffrey Hou.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

Description:

xii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Notes on contributors ; Preface ; Chapter 1. (Not) your everyday public space / Jeffrey Hou. -- Part One. Appropriating: Chapter 2. Dancing on the streets of Beijing : improved uses within the urban system / Caroline Chen ; Chapter 3. Latino urbanism in Los Angeles : a model for urban improvisation and reinvention / James Rojas ; Chapter 4. Taking place : Rebar's absurd tactics in generous urbanism / Blaine Merker. -- Part two. Reclaiming: Chapter 5. eXperimentcity : cultivating sustainable development in Berlin's Freiräume / Michael A. LaFond ; Chapter 6. Re-city, Tokyo : putting "publicness" into the urban building stocks / Shin Aiba and Osamu Nishida ; Chapter 7. Claiming residual spaces in the heterogeneous city / Erick Villagomez. -- Part three. Pluralizing: Chapter 8. Claiming Latino space : cultural insurgency in the public realm / Michael Rios ; Chapter 9. "Night market" in Seattle : community eventscape and the reconstruction of public space / Jeffrey Hou ; Chapter 10. Making places of fusion and resistance : the experiences of immigrant women in Taiwanese townships / Hung-Ying Chen and Jia-He Lin ; Chapter 11. How outsiders find home in the city : ChungShan in Taipei / Pina Wu. --
Part four. Transgressing: Chapter 12. Machizukuri house and its expanding network : making a new public realm in private homes / Yasuyoshi Hayashi ; Chapter 13. Niwa-roju : private gardens serving the public realm / Isami Kinoshita ; Chapter 14. Farmhouses as urban-rural public space / Sawako Ono, Ryoko Sato, and Mima Nishiyama. -- Part five. Uncovering: Chapter 15. Urban archives : public memories of everyday places / Irina Gendelman, Tom Dobrowolsky, and Giorgia Aiello ; Chapter 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 ; Chapter 17. Mapping the spaces of desire : brothel as city landmark, Wenminglo in Taipei / Yung-Teen Annie Chiu ; Chapter 18. Spatial limbo : reinscribing landscapes in temporal suspension / Min Jay Kang. -- Part six. Contesting: Chapter 19. Public space activism, Toronto and Vancouver : using the banner of public space to build capacity and activate change / Andrew Pask ; Chapter 20. Urban agriculture in the making of insurgent spaces in Los Angeles and Seattle / Teresa M. Mares and Devon G. Peña ; Chapter 21. When overwhelming needs meet underwhelming prospects : sustaining community open space activism in East St. Louis / Laura Lawson and Janni Sorensen. -- Index.

Summary:

From parking spaces being transformed into temporary parks, to metal pigs being deposited on sidewalks, to "sleep-in" protests, public spaces around the world are often utilized in unconventional and unusual ways. Frequently going against their traditional uses, citizens and activists are reclaiming and creating places for temporary, informal gatherings across the globe. Challenging how we define public spaces, nearly twenty such guerrilla and everyday projects are illustrated here with photographs and insightful commentaries. Often used to make serious statements, but sometimes just for fun, these insurgent spaces question the ways in which we each use our city and how we define public space. Jeffrey Hou, as editor, has carefully chosen authors who have firsthand experience in researching and implementing these insurgent public spaces. Their expertise has created a unique cross-disciplinary book looking at how public adaptation of spaces can affect the social and spatial relationships within our urban environments. Appealing to citizens, professionals, and students interested in urbanism, these valuable and fascinating insights focus on a subject and practice that has, up until now, been largely ignored. --Book Jacket

ISBN:

9780415779654 (alk. paper)
0415779650 (alk. paper)
9780415779661 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0415779669 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780203093009 (ebook)
0203093003 (ebook)

Subject:

Urbanization Case studies.
Public spaces Case studies.
Urbanisation Études de cas.
Espaces publics Études de cas.
Public spaces
Urbanization
Städtebau
Öffentlicher Raum
Nutzung
Nutzung Öffentlicher Raum.
Öffentlicher Raum Nutzung.
Stadtleben Öffentlicher Raum.
Öffentlicher Raum Stadtleben.
Public spaces Ontario Toronto
Public spaces British Columbia Vancouver.
Toronto Public Space Committee
Vancouver Public Space Network

Form/genre:

Case studies.
Études de cas.

Added entries:

Hou, Jeffrey, 1967-
Pask, Andrew. Public space activism, Toronto and Vancouver

Holdings:

Location: Library main 272357
Call No.: BIB 205655
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available