The Palgrave Handbook of Bottom-Up Urbanism

Who shapes our cities? In an age of increasing urban pluralism, globalization and immigration, decreasing public budgets, and an ongoing crisis of authority among designers and planners, the urban environment is shaped by a number of non-traditional stakeholders. The book surveys the kaleidoscope of views on the agency of urbanism, providing an overview of the various scholarly debates and territories that pertain to bottom-up efforts such as everyday urbanism, DIY urbanism, guerilla urbanism, tactical urbanism, and lean urbanism. Uniquely, this books seeks connections between the various movements by curating a range of views on the past, present, and future of bottom-up urbanism. The contributors also connect the recent trend of bottom-up efforts in the West with urban informality in the Global South, drawing parallels and finding contrast between social and institutional structures across the globe. The book appeals to urbanists in the widest sense of the word: those who shape, study, and improve our urban spaces.

Aims to bridge existing descriptions of bottom-up urbanisms Bridges bottom-up initiatives in the Global North with informal urbanism, both in the Global North and Global South Provides descriptions and manifestos that defend bottom-up initiatives

Autorentext

Mahyar Arefi is Professor of Planning at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA. He received his PhD in Planning from the University of Southern California. His publications have appeared in edited volumes and peer-reviewed flagship journals. Conrad Kickertis Assistant Professor of Urban Design at the University of Cincinnati, USA. He has worked as an urban researcher and designer in The Netherlands, the UK, and the USA.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Insurgency Meets Institution in Urban Placemaking.- 3. Guerrilla Architecture & Humanitarian Design.- 4. The Practice of Urbanism: From Public Participation to Community Development.- 5. Lean Urbanism is About Making Small Possible.- 6. Informal Urbanism and the American City.- 7. DIY Neighborhoods.- 8. The Self-Made City: Alternative Living and Urban Development Models.- 9. Bottom-up urbanism in Greece.- 10. Making Good Urbanism in Central Africa.- 11. New Trends in Bottom-up Urbanism & Governance: Reformulating Ways For Municipalities to Engage with Citizen-Led Urban Initiatives.- 12. Unplanned Creativity? Islam, Muslims and Urban Innovation in Germany.- 13. Endurance, Compliance, Victory: Learning from Informal Settlements in Five Iranian Cities.- 14. Space, Time & Agency on the Indian Street.