| The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism: Normalising Precarity in Austerity London Contributor(s): Ferreri, Mara (Author) |
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ISBN: 9462984913 ISBN-13: 9789462984912 Publisher: Amsterdam University Press OUR PRICE: $129.69 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development - Social Science | Sociology - Urban - Social Science | Poverty & Homelessness |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.2" W x 9" (0.90 lbs) 194 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Temporary urbanism has become a distinctive feature of urban life after the 2008 global financial crisis. This book offers a critical exploration of its emergence and establishment as a seductive discourse and as an entangled field of practice encompassing architecture, visual and performative arts, urban regeneration policies and planning. Drawing on seven years of semi-ethnographic research, it explores the politics of temporariness from a situated analysis of neighbourhood transformation, media representations and wider political and cultural shifts in austerity London. Through a longitudinal engagement with projects and practitioners, the book tests the power of aesthetic and cultural interventions and highlights tensions between the promise of vacant space re-appropriation and its commodification. Against the normalisation of ephemerality, it presents a critique of the permanence of temporary urbanism as a glamorisation of the anticipatory politics of precarity which are transforming cities, subjectivities and imaginaries of urban action. |
