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Taylor & Francis Ltd Insurgent Public Space 2010 Edition by Jeffrey Hou
Winner of the EDRA book prize for 2012.In cities around the world, individuals and groups are reclaiming and creating urban sites, temporary spaces and informal gathering places. These 'insurgent public spaces' challenge conventional views of how urban areas are defined and used, and how they can transform the city environment. No longer confined to traditional public areas like neighbourhood parks and public plazas, these guerrilla spaces express the alternative social and spatial relationships in our changing cities. With nearly twenty illustrated case studies, this volume shows how instances of insurgent public space occur across the world. Examples range from community gardening in Seattle and Los Angeles, street dancing in Beijing, to the transformation of parking spaces into temporary parks in San Francisco. Drawing on the experiences and knowledge of individuals extensively engaged in the actual implementation of these spaces, Insurgent Public Space is a unique cross-disciplinary approach to the study of public space use, and how it is utilized in the contemporary, urban world. Appealing to professionals and students in both urban studies and more social courses, Hou has brought together valuable commentaries on an area of urbanism which has, up until now, been largely ignored. 1. (Not) Your Everyday Public Space Jeffrey Hou Part 1: Appropriating 2. Dancing in the Streets of Beijing: Improvised Uses within the Urban System Caroline Chen 3. Latino Urbanism in Los Angeles: A Model for Urban Improvisation and Reinvention James Rojas 4. Taking Place: Rebar's Absurd Tactics in Generous Urbanism Blaine Merker for Rebar Part 2: Reclaiming 5. eXperimentcity: Culturing + Publicizing Sustainable Development of Berlin's Freiraume Michael A. LaFond 6. Re-City, Tokyo: Putting "Publicness" into the Urban Building Stocks Shin Aiba and Osamu Nishida 7. Claiming Residual Spaces in the Heterogeneous City Erick Villagomez Part 3: Pluralizing 8. Claiming Latino Space: Building Cultural Capacity in the Public Realm Michael Rios 9. ' Night Market' in Seattle: Community Eventscape and the Remaking of Public Space Jeffrey Hou 10. Making Places of Fusion and Resistance: the Experiences of Immigrant Women in Taiwanese Townships Hung-Ying Chen and Jia-He Lin 11. How Outsiders Find Home in the City: Chung Shan in Taipei Pina Wu Part 4: Transgressing 12. Machizukuri House and Its Expanding Networks: Making New Public Realm in Private Homes Yasuyoshi Hayashi 13. Niwaroju: Private Gardens Serving the Public Realm Isami Kinoshita 14. Farmhouses as Urban/Rural Public Space Sawako Ono, Ryoko Sato, and Mima Nishiyama Part 5: Uncovering 15. Urban Archives: Public Memories of Everyday Places Irina Gendelman, Tom Dobrowolsky, and Giorgia Aiello 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 17. Mapping the Space of Desire: Brothel as a City Landmark Yung-Teen Annie Chiu 18. Spatial Limbo: Re-inscribing Landscapes in Temporal Suspension Min Jay Kang Part 6: Contesting 19. Public Space Activism, Toronto and Vancouver: Using the Banner of Public Space to Build Capacity and Activate Change Andrew Pask 20. Urban Agriculture in the Making of Insurgent Spaces in Los Angeles and Seattle Teresa M. Mares and Devon G. Pena 21. When Overwhelming Needs Meets Underwhelming Prospects: Sustaining Community Open Space Activism in East St. Louis Laura Lawson and Janni Sorensen