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Urban Interstices: The Aesthetics and the Politics of the In-between Andrea Mubi Brighenti (University of Trento, Italy)

Urban Interstices: The Aesthetics and the Politics of the In-between By Andrea Mubi Brighenti (University of Trento, Italy)

Urban Interstices: The Aesthetics and the Politics of the In-between by Andrea Mubi Brighenti (University of Trento, Italy)


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Urban Interstices: The Aesthetics and the Politics of the In-between by Andrea Mubi Brighenti (University of Trento, Italy)

Bringing together a team of international scholars with an interest in urban transformations, spatial justice and territoriality, this volume questions how the interstice is related to the emerging processes of partitioning, enclave-making and zoning, showing how in-between spaces are intimately related to larger flows, networks, territories and boundaries. Illustrated with a range of case studies from places such as the US, Quebec, the UK, Italy, Gaza, Iraq, India, and South-east Asia, the volume analyses the place and function of interstitial locales in both a 'disciplined' urban space and a disordered space conceptualized through the notions of 'excess', 'danger' and 'threat'. Warning not to romanticize the interstice, the book invites us to study it as not simply a place but also a set of phenomena, events and social interactions. How are interstices perceived and represented? What is the politics of visibility that is applied to them? How to capture their peculiar rhythms, speeds and affects? On the one hand, interstices open up venues for informality, improvisation, challenge, and bricolage, playful as well as angry statements on the neoliberal city and enhanced urban inequalities. On the other hand, they also represent a crucial site of governance (even governance by withdrawal) and urban management, where an array of techniques ranging from military urbanism to new forms of value extraction are experimented. At the point of convergence of all these tensions, interstices appear as veritable sites of transformation, where social forces clash and mesh prefiguring our urban future. The book interrogates these territories, proposing new ways to explore the dynamics, events and visibilities that define them.

Urban Interstices: The Aesthetics and the Politics of the In-between Reviews

'In a world of shattered polarities and twisted dichotomies, this important new book about urban interstices provides a unique and much needed roadmap into an emergent new conceptual geography of post-suburban territories.' Roger Keil, The City Institute at York University, Canada ' Left over or in-between spaces in cities are receiving renewed attention as spaces of possibility, for everything from informal economies and political action to artistic and architectural interventions in the service of public engagement or hipster buzz . This terrific book on urban interstices makes an important contribution to these discussions. The chapters in the book engage with urban interstices not as left over places that simply exist, but as space-times that are constantly in production with complex relationships to events, subjects, laws, technologies, powers, projects and plans. Through engagements with a fascinating variety of places and practices, the authors show us how the possibilities of interstices can be identified and interrogated. Highly recommended.' Kurt Iveson, University of Sydney, Australia 'Rethinking critically urban space is what social theory and urban studies are trying to do since the spatial turn. What this book suggests is a radical u-turn in both perception of space and analysis. It invites us to rethink the very dialectic between space, time and social situations. It is a reconsideration of the leftover, the apparently ephemeral, the event, the niche, all those marginal spaces that have been too easily discarded as mere cracks in the pavement of urban theory. This book, edited and written by affirmed and soon-to-be affirmed authors, does the job in a convincingly vivid way. The in-betweenness of our life now has its spatial handbook.' Giovanni Semi, University of Turin, Italy

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Table of Contents

Introduction, Andrea Mubi Brighenti; Chapter 1 What Sort of a Legal Space is a City?, Nicholas Blomley; Chapter 2 Trajectories of Interstitial Landscapeness: A Conceptual Framework for Territorial Imagination and Action, Luc Levesque; Chapter 3 Tent Cities: Interstitial Spaces of Survival, Don Mitchell; Chapter 4 Spatial Justice in the Lawscape, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos; Chapter 5 Coming up for Air: Comfort, Conflict and the Air of the Megacity, Peter Adey; Chapter 6 Automobile Interstices: Driving and the In-Between Spaces of the City, Iain Borden; Chapter 7 Interstitial Space and the Transformation of Retail Building Types, Mattias Karrholm; Chapter 8 Interim Users in Residual Spaces: An Inquiry Into the Career of a Pier on the Hudson Riverfront, Stephane Tonnelat; Chapter 9 The Urban Fringe as a Territorial Interstice: On Alpine Suburbs, Andrea Mubi Brighenti; Chapter 10 Active Interstices: Urban Informality, the Tourist Gaze and Metamorphosis in South-East Asia, Ross King, Kim Dovey;

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NLS9781138257399
9781138257399
1138257397
Urban Interstices: The Aesthetics and the Politics of the In-between by Andrea Mubi Brighenti (University of Trento, Italy)
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2016-11-23
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