Ferreri, Mara (2021) The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism: Normalising Precarity in Austerity London. Cities and Cultures, 8 . Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam. ISBN 9789462984912, 9789048535828
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Abstract
Temporary urbanism has become an established marker of city making after the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. The book offers a critical exploration of its emergence and establishment as a seductive discourse and as an entangled field of urban practice encompassing architecture, visual and performative arts, urban regeneration and planning. Drawing on seven years of semi-ethnographic research in London, it explores the politics of temporariness at time of austerity from a situated analysis of neighbourhood transformation and wider cultural and economic shifts. Through a sympathetic, longitudinal engagement with projects and practitioners, the book tests the power of aesthetic and cultural interventions and highlights tensions between the promise of practices of dissenting vacant space re-appropriation, and their practical foreclosure. Against the normalisation of ephemerality, it develops a critique of temporary urbanism as a glamorisation of the anticipatory politics of precarity, transforming subjectivities and imaginaries of urban action.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Pop-up, Temporary Urbanism, Architecture, Art, Activism, London |
| Subjects: | K900 Others in Architecture, Building and Planning L700 Human and Social Geography |
| Department: | Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Geography and Environmental Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | John Coen |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Mar 2021 13:27 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Mar 2021 14:48 |
| URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/45788 |
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