Cities are typically thought of as permanent. Structures, streets, infrastructure, and other features of the built environment, even if they are periodically replaced, are intended to endure. But temporary, flexible spaces and uses are essential to how cities function and the ways urban dwellers inhabit them. Such adaptability, moreover, is fundamental if cities are to meet the challenges of the future.
This book examines temporary urbanisms across varied global contexts, considering their significance for cities and everyday life as well as for policy and practice. It brings together many distinct forms and facets of temporariness and adaptability—from sites of consumption by privileged residents to the survival strategies of marginalized groups—drawing on examples spanning five continents. Lauren Andres explores the driving forces of adaptability as well as the power dynamics and tensions between temporariness and permanence. She highlights how adaptability enhances livability, sustainability, and resilience, showing its importance for addressing crises such as climate change, socioeconomic inequalities, and pandemics. Authoritative and wide-ranging, Adaptable Cities and Temporary Urbanisms reveals why experimentation and creativity are crucial to the present and future of cities.
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Preface
1. What Is the Adaptable and Temporary City?
2. The Flexible and Inflexible City
3. Adaptability, Activation, and Weak Planning
4. Everyday Adaptability, Coping, and Resilience
5. Adaptability and the “Cool” Artificial City
6. The Pandemic and Postpandemic Adaptable City
7. Knowledge, Skills, and the Delivery of the Adaptable City
8.The Future of Adaptable Cities and Temporary Urbanisms
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Lauren Andres is director of research and professor of planning and urban transformations at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. She is coeditor of
Pandemic Recovery? Reframing and Rescaling Societal Challenges (2024), among other books.
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