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- The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism: Normalising Precarity in Austerity London
- Book
- 2021
- Published by: Amsterdam University Press
summary
Temporary urbanism has become an established marker of city making after the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. The book offers a critical exploration of its emergence and establishment as a seductive discourse and as an entangled field of urban practice encompassing architecture, visual and performative arts, urban regeneration and planning. Drawing on seven years of semi-ethnographic research in London, it explores the politics of temporariness at time of austerity from a situated analysis of neighbourhood transformation and wider cultural and economic shifts. Through a sympathetic, longitudinal engagement with projects and practitioners, the book tests the power of aesthetic and cultural interventions and highlights tensions between the promise of practices of dissenting vacant space re-appropriation, and their practical foreclosure. Against the normalisation of ephemerality, it develops a critique of temporary urbanism as a glamorisation of the anticipatory politics of precarity, transforming subjectivities and imaginaries of urban action.
Table of Contents
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- Title, Copyright
- pp. 1-4
- Table of Contents
- pp. 5-6
- Acknowledgements
- pp. 7-8
- 3. 'Not a pop-up!'
- pp. 57-88
- 4. Staging temporary spaces
- pp. 89-116
- 6. The normalisation of temporariness
- pp. 145-172
- Bibliography
- pp. 173-192
Additional Information
ISBN
9789048535828
MARC Record
OCLC
1241447273
Pages
194
Launched on MUSE
2021-03-19
Language
English
Open Access
No