The Palgrave Handbook of Bottom-Up Urbanism
Editors: Arefi, Mahyar, Kickert, Conrad (Eds.)
Free Preview- Aims to bridge existing descriptions of bottom-up urbanisms
- Bridges bottom-up initiatives in the Global North with informal urbanism, both in the Global North and Global South
- Provides descriptions and manifestos that defend bottom-up initiatives
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- About this book
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Who shapes our cities? In an age of increasing urban pluralism, globalization and immigration, decreasing public budgets, and an ongoing crisis of authority among designers and planners, the urban environment is shaped by a number of non-traditional stakeholders. The book surveys the kaleidoscope of views on the agency of urbanism, providing an overview of the various scholarly debates and territories that pertain to bottom-up efforts such as everyday urbanism, DIY urbanism, guerilla urbanism, tactical urbanism, and lean urbanism. Uniquely, this books seeks connections between the various movements by curating a range of views on the past, present, and future of bottom-up urbanism. The contributors also connect the recent trend of bottom-up efforts in the West with urban informality in the Global South, drawing parallels and finding contrast between social and institutional structures across the globe. The book appeals to urbanists in the widest sense of the word: those who shape, study, and improve our urban spaces.
- About the authors
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Mahyar Arefi is Professor of Planning at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA. He received his PhD in Planning from the University of Southern California. His publications have appeared in edited volumes and peer-reviewed flagship journals.
Conrad Kickert is Assistant Professor of Urban Design at the University of Cincinnati, USA. He has worked as an urban researcher and designer in The Netherlands, the UK, and the USA.
- Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-10
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Everyday and Bottom-Up: A Counter-Narrative of American City Design
Pages 13-27
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Guerrilla Architecture and Humanitarian Design
Pages 29-49
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The Practice of Urbanism: Civic Engagement and Collaboration by Design
Pages 51-66
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Lean Urbanism Is About Making Small Possible
Pages 67-82
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Palgrave Handbook of Bottom-Up Urbanism
- Editors
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- Mahyar Arefi
- Conrad Kickert
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-90131-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-90131-2
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-90130-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-07939-0
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVII, 357
- Number of Illustrations
- 54 b/w illustrations
- Topics
