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The Help-Yourself City: Legitimacy and Inequality in DIY Urbanism
The Help-Yourself City: Legitimacy and Inequality in DIY Urbanism
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When local governments neglect public services or community priorities, how do concerned citizens respond? In The Help-Yourself City, Gordon Douglas looks closely at people who take urban planning into their own hands with homemade signs and benches, guerrilla bike lanes and more. Douglas
explores the frustration, creativity, and technical expertise behind these interventions, but also the position of privilege from which they often come. Presenting a needed analysis of this growing trend from vacant lots to city planning offices, The Help-Yourself City tells a street-level story of
people's relationships to their urban surroundings and the individualization of democratic responsibility.
Author: Gordon C. C. Douglas
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 02/01/2018
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780190691325
explores the frustration, creativity, and technical expertise behind these interventions, but also the position of privilege from which they often come. Presenting a needed analysis of this growing trend from vacant lots to city planning offices, The Help-Yourself City tells a street-level story of
people's relationships to their urban surroundings and the individualization of democratic responsibility.
Author: Gordon C. C. Douglas
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 02/01/2018
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780190691325
About the Author
Gordon Douglas is Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Director of the Institute for Metropolitan Studies at San José State University.
