Everyday urbanism / edited by John Chase, Margaret Crawford, and John Kaliski.

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TextPublication details: 2008. The Monacelli Press, New York :Edition: Expanded edDescription: 224 p. : chiefly col. ; 24 cmISBN:

9781580932011

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23 709.79494 EVE 001536

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Table of contents

Contents:

Introduction / Margaret Crawford Pt. 1. Looking at the City. Performing the City: Reflections on the Urban Vernacular / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. Blurring the Boundaries: Public Space and Private Life / Margaret Crawford. The Urban Bricoleur / Mona Houghton. Ernest's Garden / Dennis Keeley. A Curmudgeon's Guide to the Wide World of Trash / John Chase. They Saw a Very Great Future Here: Los Angeles, Latino Metropolis / Camilo Jose Vergara Pt. 2. Making the City. The Present City and the Practice of City Design / John Kaliski. The Giant Revolving (Winking) Chicken Head and the Doggie Drinking Fountain: Making Small Distinctive Public Spaces on Private Land by Using Commonplace Objects / John Chase. A Day in the Life of a Neighborhood Place / Phoebe Wall Wilson. Street Survival: The Plight of the Los Angeles Street Vendors / Norman Millar. Urban Diaries: Improvisation in West Oakland, California / Walter Hood. Quotidian Bricolage / Margaret Crawford and John Kaliski.

Summary: "Everyday space can be spirited, spontaneous, vital, and inclusive; all too often it is neglected by its inhabitants, ignored by city planners, and disregarded by critics. The essays collected in Everyday Urbanism offer both an analysis of and a method for working within the city in a volume that, in its multiple voices and evocative illustrations, itself mirrors the space of the everyday."--BOOK JACKET.

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Introduction / Margaret Crawford
Pt. 1. Looking at the City. Performing the City: Reflections on the Urban Vernacular / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. Blurring the Boundaries: Public Space and Private Life / Margaret Crawford. The Urban Bricoleur / Mona Houghton. Ernest's Garden / Dennis Keeley. A Curmudgeon's Guide to the Wide World of Trash / John Chase. They Saw a Very Great Future Here: Los Angeles, Latino Metropolis / Camilo Jose Vergara
Pt. 2. Making the City. The Present City and the Practice of City Design / John Kaliski. The Giant Revolving (Winking) Chicken Head and the Doggie Drinking Fountain: Making Small Distinctive Public Spaces on Private Land by Using Commonplace Objects / John Chase. A Day in the Life of a Neighborhood Place / Phoebe Wall Wilson. Street Survival: The Plight of the Los Angeles Street Vendors / Norman Millar. Urban Diaries: Improvisation in West Oakland, California / Walter Hood. Quotidian Bricolage / Margaret Crawford and John Kaliski.

"Everyday space can be spirited, spontaneous, vital, and inclusive; all too often it is neglected by its inhabitants, ignored by city planners, and disregarded by critics. The essays collected in Everyday Urbanism offer both an analysis of and a method for working within the city in a volume that, in its multiple voices and evocative illustrations, itself mirrors the space of the everyday."--BOOK JACKET.

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