The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism : : Normalising Precarity in Austerity London / / Mara Ferreri.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Ferreri, Mara,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Cities and Cultures ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (194 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgements --; 1. Temporary urbanism: a situated approach --; 2. The entangled field of temporary urbanism --; 3. ‘Not a pop-up!’ --; 4. Staging temporary spaces --; 5. Planning a temporary city of on-demand communities --; 6. The normalisation of temporariness --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789048535828; 9783110743227; 9783110743357; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110754179; 9783110753943
• DOI: 10.1515/9789048535828?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Mara Ferreri.

Temporary urbanism has become an established marker of city making after the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. The book offers a critical exploration of its emergence and establishment as a seductive discourse and as an entangled field of urban practice encompassing architecture, visual and performative arts, urban regeneration and planning. Drawing on seven years of semi-ethnographic research in London, it explores the politics of temporariness at time of austerity from a situated analysis of neighbourhood transformation and wider cultural and economic shifts. Through a sympathetic, longitudinal engagement with projects and practitioners, the book tests the power of aesthetic and cultural interventions and highlights tensions between the promise of practices of dissenting vacant space re-appropriation, and their practical foreclosure. Against the normalisation of ephemerality, it develops a critique of temporary urbanism as a glamorisation of the anticipatory politics of precarity, transforming subjectivities and imaginaries of urban action.