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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Gordon C.C. Douglas (Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Director of the Institute for Metropolitan Studies, San Jose State University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.578kg ISBN: 9780190691332ISBN 10: 0190691336 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 10 May 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Constructive Deviance: What is DIY Urban Design? And What is it Not? Chapter 3. Individualizing Civic Responsibility: DIY Urban Design in the Help-Yourself City Chapter 4. I'm an Expert on Public Space : Professional and Scholarly Knowledge at Work in DIY Urbanism Chapter 5. The Spatial Reproduction of Inequality: Social Privilege and Disadvantage in Creative Transgression Chapter 6. Pop-Up Planning: From Park(ing) Day to Parklet Dining, DIY Goes Official Chapter 7. Conclusions Appendix 1: Table of Projects Appendix 2: Postface: Methods and Research Design BibliographyReviewsRising above mere ethnographic survey of 'do it yourself' urban projects-like guerrilla gardening or citizens' refashioning an urban space-Douglas inventories civic engagement full-on, including larger issues of social order and the costs and benefits of people taking pieces of the city into their own hands. Always thoughtful and without naivet , he gives us a glimpse of pathways for urban reform and, more important, some manifestations of hope. --Harvey Molotch, author of Against Security A book I have long been waiting for! Douglas explores the diverse ways in which people engage urban space and bring their ideas on to the streets themselves through site-specific planning efforts. The book shows us the broad range of urban knowledges present in any city neighborhood, but also the challenges of negotiating them in public space. --Saskia Sassen, author of Expulsions Do It Yourself urban design is an insubordinate, self-authorized, 'informal, ' response to both the deficits of official planning and to the 'help yourself' regime of our old friend, neoliberalism. In this fascinating-and critical-reading, Douglas presents DIY as a progressive inversion of the broken windows theory of policing, rejecting control by coercive orderliness and seeking to cure deficits in the public realm by wanton acts of creative, corrective -if often privileged-addition. --Michael Sorkin, author of Twenty Minutes in Manhattan Rising above mere ethnographic survey of 'do it yourself' urban projects-like guerrilla gardening or citizens' refashioning an urban space-Douglas inventories civic engagement full-on, including larger issues of social order and the costs and benefits of people taking pieces of the city into their own hands. Always thoughtful and without naivete, he gives us a glimpse of pathways for urban reform and, more important, some manifestations of hope. --Harvey Molotch, author of Against Security A book I have long been waiting for! Douglas explores the diverse ways in which people engage urban space and bring their ideas on to the streets themselves through site-specific planning efforts. The book shows us the broad range of urban knowledges present in any city neighborhood, but also the challenges of negotiating them in public space. --Saskia Sassen, author of Expulsions Do It Yourself urban design is an insubordinate, self-authorized, 'informal, ' response to both the deficits of official planning and to the 'help yourself' regime of our old friend, neoliberalism. In this fascinating-and critical-reading, Douglas presents DIY as a progressive inversion of the broken windows theory of policing, rejecting control by coercive orderliness and seeking to cure deficits in the public realm by wanton acts of creative, corrective -if often privileged-addition. --Michael Sorkin, author of Twenty Minutes in Manhattan Author InformationGordon Douglas is Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Director of the Institute for Metropolitan Studies at San Jose State University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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