The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism : Normalising Precarity in Austerity London Hardback
by Mara Ferreri
Part of the Cities and Cultures series
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Temporary urbanism has become a distinctive feature of urban life after the 2008 global financial crisis.
This book offers a critical exploration of its emergence and establishment as a seductive discourse and as an entangled field of practice encompassing architecture, visual and performative arts, urban regeneration policies and planning.
Drawing on seven years of semi-ethnographic research, it explores the politics of temporariness from a situated analysis of neighbourhood transformation, media representations and wider political and cultural shifts in austerity London.
Through a longitudinal engagement with projects and practitioners, the book tests the power of aesthetic and cultural interventions and highlights tensions between the promise of vacant space re-appropriation and its commodification.
Against the normalisation of ephemerality, it presents a critique of the permanence of temporary urbanism as a glamorisation of the anticipatory politics of precarity which are transforming cities, subjectivities and imaginaries of urban action.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:194 pages, 10 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Amsterdam University Press
- Publication Date:11/03/2021
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- ISBN:9789462984912
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:194 pages, 10 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Amsterdam University Press
- Publication Date:11/03/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9789462984912