The Help-Yourself City: Legitimacy and Inequality in DIY Urbanism

ISBN-13: 9780190691325 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 264 str.

Gordon C. C. Douglas

Opis

In The Help-Yourself City, Gordon Douglas looks closely at the people who take urban planning into their own hands, dubbed "do-it-yourself urban design" and exposes the ways that DIY urban design are increasingly celebrated and appropriated into economic development efforts that perpetuate cycles of inequality for disadvantaged communities.

Recenzje

Gordon Douglas has written an excellent book... that takes readers down an insightful journey

O autorze

Gordon Douglas is Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at San José State University in California, where he is Director of the Institute for Metropolitan Studies. Born in England and raised in Northern California, he has also lived in Chicago, London, Los Angeles, and New York.