Tonkiss, Fran 
ORCID: 0009-0001-8484-0669
(2013)
Austerity urbanism and the makeshift city.
City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action, 17 (3).
pp. 312-324.
ISSN 1470-3629
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Abstract
This paper engages with a recent set of critical arguments concerning the 'post-crisis city' and the political economy of 'austerity urbanism'. The focus of the discussion is on practical interventions in the vacant and disused spaces of recessionary cities, and in particular on temporary designs and provisional uses. In this way, it opens a further line of argument about urbanism under conditions of austerity, alongside analyses of the formal politics of austerity or the possibilities of urban activism in these settings. Its concern is with forms of urban intervention that re-work orthodoxies of urban development as usual: in particular the timescales that inform conventional development models; the understandings of use around which sites are planned and designed; and the ways in which value is realized through the production of urban spaces. The argument centres on European contexts of austerity urbanism, drawing on critical examples of urban design and occupation in the region's largest economies. Such urban strategies are concerned with a politics and a practice of small incursions in material spaces that seek to create a kind of 'durability through the temporary'.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ccit20/current |
| Additional Information: | © 2013 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC |
| Divisions: | Sociology LSE Cities |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Jul 2013 13:15 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Nov 2024 05:23 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/51107 |
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