The help-yourself city: legitimacy and inequality in DIY urbanism

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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 hubris in creative transgression -- Pop-up planning: from park(ing) day to parklet dining, DIY goes official -- Conclusions : Inequality, legitimacy, and the momentary potential of participation -- Appendix 1. List of all projects in the study for which interviews were conducted ; Appendix 2. Research design and methodology. 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 hubris in creative transgression -- Pop-up planning: from park(ing) day to parklet dining, DIY goes official -- Conclusions : Inequality, legitimacy, and the momentary potential of participation -- Appendix 1. List of all projects in the study for which interviews were conducted Appendix 2. Research design and methodology.