The Palgrave Handbook of Bottom-Up Urbanism

Description

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Introduction (Conrad Kickert, Mahyar Arefi)....Pages 1-10 Front Matter ....Pages 11-11 Everyday and Bottom-Up: A Counter-Narrative of American City Design (Jeffrey Hou)....Pages 13-27 Guerrilla Architecture and Humanitarian Design (Scott Shall)....Pages 29-49 The Practice of Urbanism: Civic Engagement and Collaboration by Design (David Brain)....Pages 51-66 Lean Urbanism Is About Making Small Possible (Hank Dittmar, Douglas S. Kelbaugh)....Pages 67-82 Informal Urbanism and the American City (Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Vinit Mukhija)....Pages 83-96 Front Matter ....Pages 97-97 DIY Neighborhoods (Emily Talen)....Pages 99-112 New Trends in Bottom-Up Urbanism and Governance—Reformulating Ways for Mutual Engagement Between Municipalities and Citizen-Led Urban Initiatives (Rosa Danenberg, Tigran Haas)....Pages 113-129 The Self-Made City—Urban Living and Alternative Development Models (Kristien Ring)....Pages 131-147 Informal Place-Making: Mosques, Muslims, and Urban Innovation in Germany (Petra Kuppinger)....Pages 149-162 Typologies of Bottom-Up Planning in Southern Europe: The Case of Greek Urbanism During the Economic Crisis (Konstantinos Serraos, Evangelos Asprogerakas)....Pages 163-175 Front Matter ....Pages 177-177 Lean Urbanism in Central Africa (Stephen Coyle)....Pages 179-199 Planning and Unplanning Amman: Between Formal Planning and Non-traditional Agency (Luna Khirfan)....Pages 201-218 Endurance, Compliance, Victory: Learning from Informal Settlements in Five Iranian Cities (Mahyar Arefi, Neda Mohsenian-Rad)....Pages 219-237 Space, Time, and Agency on the Indian Street (Vikas Mehta)....Pages 239-253 Bottom-Up Urbanism in China Urban Villages and City Development (Stefan Al)....Pages 255-267 Front Matter ....Pages 269-269 Bottom-Down Urbanism (Nezar AlSayyad, Sujin Eom)....Pages 271-285 Property, Planning and Bottom-Up Pedestrian Spaces in Toronto’s Post-war Suburbs (Paul M. Hess)....Pages 287-304 Privilege and Participation: On the Democratic Implications and Social Contradictions of Bottom-Up Urbanisms (Gordon C. C. Douglas)....Pages 305-321 Pop-ups and Public Interests: Agile Public Space in the Neoliberal City (Quentin Stevens, Kim Dovey)....Pages 323-337 Back Matter ....Pages 339-357