Temporary and Tactical Urbanism
(Re)Assembling Urban Space
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
6 September 2022
Summary
Temporary and Tactical Urbanism examines a key set of urban design strategies that have emerged in the twenty-first century. Such projects range from guerrilla gardens and bike lanes to more formalised temporary beaches and swimming pools, parklets, pop-up plazas and buildings and container towns.
These practices enable diverse forms of economic, social and artistic life that are usually repressed by the fixities of urban form and its management. This book takes a thematic ap…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781032256542 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1032256540 |
| Author: | Quentin Stevens, Kim Dovey |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 6 September 2022 |
| Weight: | 453g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Quentin Stevens
Quentin Stevens is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Research and Innovation in the School of Architecture and Urban Design at RMIT University in Melbourne. He studied temporary uses of urban spaces in Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, and currently leads an Australian Research Council-funded project examining temporary and tactical urbanism in Australia and internationally. His publications include The Ludic City (2007), Loose Space (2007), Activating Urban Waterfronts (2020) and numerous journal articles.
Kim Dovey is a Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Melbourne and Director of the Informal Urbanism Research Hub (Infur-). His research on social issues in architecture and urban design has included investigations of urban place identity, creative clusters, transit-oriented urban design and the morphology of informal settlements. His books include Framing Places (1999⁄2008), Fluid City (2005), Becoming Places (2010) and Urban Design Thinking (2016).
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