β Scribed by Gordon C. C. Douglas
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Introduction -- Constructive deviance: what is DIY urban design? And what is it not? -- Individualizing civic responsibility: DIY urban design in the help-yourself city -- "I'm an expert on public space": professional and scholarly knowledge at work in DIY urbanism -- The spatial reproduction of inequality: social privilege and hubris in creative transgression -- Pop-up planning: from park(ing) day to parklet dining, DIY goes official -- Conclusions : Inequality, legitimacy, and the momentary potential of participation -- Appendix 1. List of all projects in the study for which interviews were conducted ; Appendix 2. Research design and methodology.;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. Book jacket.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban
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