Temporary Appropriation in Cities
Human Spatialisation in Public Spaces and Community Resilience
Editors: Melis, Alessandro, Lara-Hernandez, Jose Antonio, Thompson, James (Eds.)
Free Preview- Introduces temporary appropriation as a concept for analyzing human behavior, cities, and urban sustainability issues
- Presents a cross-disciplinary analysis addressing themes such as citizenship, social sustainability, public health, and crime
- Brings together contributions by international authors with various areas of expertise
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This book conceptualises and illustrates temporary appropriation as an urban phenomenon, exploring its contributions to citizenship, urban social sustainability and urban health. It explains how some forms of appropriation can be subversive, existing in a grey area between legal and illegal activities in the city.
The book explores the complex and the multi-scalar nature of temporary appropriation, and touches on its relationship to issues such as:
- sustainability and building re-use;
- culture;
- inclusivity, including socio-spatial inclusion;
- streetscape design;
- homelessness; and
- regulations controlling the use of public spaces.
Since urban populations are certain to grow further, this is a key topic for understanding urban dynamics, and this book will be of interest to academics and practitioners alike.
- Table of contents (15 chapters)
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General Introduction
Pages 1-9
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Understanding Temporary Appropriation and Social Sustainability
Pages 11-26
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Between Assemblages and Temporary Appropriation: The Case of Mexico City
Pages 27-58
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Temporary Appropriation and Informality
Pages 59-77
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Ongoing Appropriation: Invisible Seattle and Red May
Pages 79-93
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Temporary Appropriation in Cities
- Book Subtitle
- Human Spatialisation in Public Spaces and Community Resilience
- Editors
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- Alessandro Melis
- Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez
- James Thompson
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-32120-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-32120-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-32119-2
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXVI, 256
- Topics
