Engaged urbanism : cities & methodologies /: cities & methodologies. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Engaged urbanism
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ben Campkin & Ger Duijzings.
• Editors: Campkin, Ben; Duijzings, Gerlachlus, 1961-
• 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 social""""III 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 Imaginaries""""12 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 Band""""VI 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 ""
• Publisher Details: London : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (ix, 290 pages), illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color)
• Subjects: 307.7/6; Cities and towns; Sociology, Urban; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786731661; 1786731665; 9781786721662
• Related ISBNs: 178672166X; 9781784534592; 1784534595
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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