Cities in Time Temporay Urbanism and the Future of the City

• Main Author: Madanipour, Ali (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Bloomsbury Publishing 2017
• Subjects: Urbanization; Time > Social aspects
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"From street-markets and pop-up shops to art installations and Olympic parks, the temporary use of urban space is a growing international trend in architecture and urban design. Partly a response to economic and ecological crisis, it also claims to offer a critique of the status quo and an inno...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The multiple times of the city
• Instrumental temporality. Regulating time in everyday life
• Accelerated cities
• Existential temporality. Memory and identity in the city
• The phenomenology of anxiety
• Experimental temporality. Events and interventions-from pop-ups to Olympic parks
• Conclusion: Temporary urbanism as symptom, response, and catalyst.