Engaged urbanism : cities & methodologies

Engaged urbanism : cities & methodologies / edited by Ben Campkin & Ger Duijzings.

Engaged Urbanism' showcases the exciting ways in which urbanists are responding to this question and working towards fairer cities. Its authors offer succinct, candid and carefully illustrated commentaries on the trials and successes of risk-taking research, revealing how they collaborate acros...

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Other Authors: Campkin, Ben (Editor), Duijzings, Gerlachlus, 1961- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : I.B. Tauris, 2016.
Subjects:
Cities and towns.
Sociology, Urban.
cities.
urban sociology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Cities and towns
Sociology, Urban
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Engaged urbanism: situated and experimental methodologies for fairer cities
  • I Frames
  • 1 Cities methodologies matter: comparative urbanism and global urban theory
  • 2 Methods, metaphors and the interdisciplinary terrain of urban research
  • II Site-Specific Collaborations
  • 3 Site-writing
  • 4 Towards an architecture of engagement: researching contested urbanism and informalities
  • 5 â#x80;#x98;Worldingâ#x80;#x99; the studio: methodological experiments and the art of being socialIII Performance and Participation
  • 6 From â#x80;#x98;heroinâ#x80;#x99; to heroines
  • 7 Four palimpsests on the erasure of the Heygate Estate
  • 8 Hacking Londonâ#x80;#x99;s demolition decisions: a new collaboration to scrutinise the technical justifications for retrofit, refurbishment and demolition
  • 9 Authoring the neighbourhood in Wikipedia
  • 10 The secret security guard: being a G4S employee during the London Olympic Games 2012
  • 11 Hide and seek: the dubious nature of plant life in high-security spaces
  • IV Situating Images and Imaginaries12 The ups and downs of visualising contemporary Mumbai
  • 13 Creating systematic records through time: the destruction and reconstruction of heritage areas affected by earthquakes in Chile
  • 14 Paint. Buff. Shoot. Repeat: re-photographing graffiti in London
  • 15 Critical urban learning through participatory photography
  • 16 Assisted self-portraits and GUESTures: excerpts from a discussion on photography and participation
  • 17 Picturing place: the agency of images in urban change
  • 25 Contra BandVI Fabric and Fabrication
  • 26 The twin sisters are â#x80;#x98;about toâ#x80;#x99; swap houses: displacement and the bordering practice of matching
  • 27 City shapes and urban metaphor
  • 28 (In)visible bodies: migrants in the city of gold
  • 29 Negotiating space: the artist as creator and enabler of spaces for working, thinking and meeting
  • 30 25 demolished houses
  • 31 The bridge of sighs
  • 32 Materials. Stories
  • 33 Buildings on fire: towards a new approach to urban memory
  • Contributors

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