Transforming cities through temporary urbanism : a comparative international overview / Lauren Andres, Amy Y. Zhang, editors.

This book advances the reflexion into how temporary urbanism is shaping cities across the world. Temporary urbanism has become a core concept in urban development, and its application is increasingly crossing the borders of both the North and the Global South. There is a need to reflect upon the div...

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Other Authors: Andres, Lauren (Editor), Zhang, Amy Y. (Editor)
Format: Ebook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, 2020.
Series:Urban book series,
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Online Access:Springer eBooks
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Shaping the international research agenda of temporary urbanism
  • Part I: Reframing and reconceptualising temporary urbanisms
  • Temporariness takes command: How temporary urbanism re-assembles the city
  • The temporality within temporary urbanism: Listening to rhythms and timespace
  • Artistic events as planning practice: Hybridisation, expectations, and pitfalls in three Swiss case studies
  • Informality and temporary urbanism as defiance: Tales of the everyday life and livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa
  • Temporary forms of urbanism in contested urban spaces in Lebanon: The case of Dbayeh camp
  • Political protest, temporary urbanism and the deactivation of urban spaces
  • Part II: Unwrapping the complexity and diversity of temporary urbanisms.
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