The Help-yourself City

The Help-yourself City PDF

Author: Gordon C. C. Douglas

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0190691336

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Introduction -- Constructive deviance: what is DIY urban design? And what is it not? -- Individualizing civic responsibility: DIY urban design in the help-yourself city -- "I'm an expert on public space": professional and scholarly knowledge at work in DIY urbanism -- The spatial reproduction of inequality: social privilege and disadvantage in creative transgression -- Pop-up planning: from park(ing) day to parklet dining, DIY goes official -- Conclusions