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Introduction to the special issue on DIY urbanism
Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, 2014This special issue of the Journal of Urbanism tackles a question of ongoing pertinence for cities and urbanists everywhere: what are the rights, expectations, and responsibilities of the public as ...
Donovan Finn
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DIY Urbanism and the Lens of the Commons: Observations from Spain
City & Community, 2019 A growing body of literature has been explicitly concerned with a range of microspatial practices that are currently reshaping urban spaces under the valuable denominator of “DIY urbanism.” However, there is still much work to be done if we are to take into consideration DIY urbanism's primary source and output: the commons.
Volont, Louis
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Interrogating rainwater harvesting as Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Urbanism
Geoforum, 2019Abstract For the first time in history, the global population is more concentrated in urban spaces than in rural areas. Population growth, climate change, and increasing stress on water resources evidence the urgency of adopting more sustainable urban water management practices.
Alison D. Elder, Andrea K. Gerlak
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Civic Engagement through DIY Urbanism and Collective Networked Action
Planning Practice & Research, 2015In this paper, we examine do-it-yourself (DIY) urbanism through place-based and technology initiatives that support collective networked action to foster civic engagement in neighborhood contexts. The goal is to engage informal and ad-hoc networks of individual and collective actors in productively addressing critical conditions within their urban ...
Nitin Sawhney +2 more
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DIY Urbanism in Africa: Politics and Practice
South African Journal of International AffairsBook Review DIY urbanism in Africa: politics and practice by Stephen Marr and Patience Mususa, London, Zed Books and Bloomsbury, 2023, 256 pp., £58.50 (hb), ISBN ...
Rubin, Margot
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Introduction: DIY, everyday life and urban creativity
Portuguese Journal of Social Science, 2017Abstract
Paula Guerra, Pedro Costa, Vera Borges
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Dialogues in Human Geography, 2023
In this commentary, I explore what an artists’ process offers to city-making: how urban experimentation can open up hopeful, surprising, and imaginative urban encounters and futures. By doing so, I imagine a future for geographical thought and praxis lying partly in the interesting places where they overlap with artistic practice.
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In this commentary, I explore what an artists’ process offers to city-making: how urban experimentation can open up hopeful, surprising, and imaginative urban encounters and futures. By doing so, I imagine a future for geographical thought and praxis lying partly in the interesting places where they overlap with artistic practice.
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No more waiting for Superman: teaching DIY urbanism and reflexive practice
Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, 2014Self-made urbanity is not a new phenomenon. However, decades of economic restructuring and a neoliberalization of the city and state have made the public realm vulnerable to changes in the economic winds. Increasingly, such an environment poses limits to what can be done via formal planning and urban design processes while do-it-yourself (DIY ...
José L.S. Gamez, Janni Sorensen
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DYSTOPIA OF DIY-URBANISM VS THE UTOPIA OF PARTISAN URBANISM
RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. "Literary Theory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies" SeriesThe article discusses modern microurban approaches to changing the urban environment. The concept of DiY-urbanism, which is based on the idea of independent creativity of residents to improve the urban environment, is considered based on the study of cases – materials from the two-day workshop “DiY-weekend in Kaliningrad. Designing urban spaces” (2016)
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