Cities within the City
Do-It-Yourself Urbanism and the Right to the City
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4382502 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kurt Iveson (0000-0002-2362-4743, School of Geosciences University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 941-956 |
| Publication date | 2013-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2427.12053 |
| OpenAlex | W1943640755 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 203 |
| References cited | 15 |
In many cities around the world we are presently witnessing the growth of, and interest in, a range of micro-spatial urban practices that are reshaping urban spaces. These practices include actions such as: guerrilla and community gardening; housing and retail cooperatives; flash mobbing and other shock tactics; social economies and bartering schemes; 'empty spaces' movements to occupy abandoned buildings for a range of purposes; subcultural practices like graffiti/street art, skateboarding and parkour; and more. This article asks: to what extent do such practices constitute a new form of urban politics that might give birth to a more just and democratic city? In answering this question, the article considers these so-called 'do-it-yourself urbanisms' from the perspective of the 'right to the city'. After critically assessing that concept, the article argues that in order for do-it-yourself urbanist practices to generate a wider politics of the city through the appropriation of urban space, they also need to assert new forms of authority in the city based on the equality of urban inhabitants. This claim is illustrated through an analysis of the do-it-yourself practices of Sydney-based activist collective BUGA UP and the New York and Madrid Street Advertising Takeovers
Appropriation · Citizen journalism · Economic growth · Economics · Gentrification · Geography · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Right to the city · Sociology · Urban politics · Urbanism · Law · Night-time city culture · Public Spaces through Art · Urban Planning and Governance
TIC e movimentos sociais no urbano do século 21
Claiming urban citizenship through insurgent choreographies
Enabling Bottom-Up Practices in Urban and Architectural Design Studios
Zur Rolle von Kritik in der Angewandten Kritischen Stadtgeographie
Autoconstrução Redux
Direito à Cidade
«Clean Off or Get Out». (Self)Governance, Community and Citizenship in New Large Housing Estates in Russian Cities
(Re)pensando el derecho a la ciudad desde los Centros Sociales Okupados
Urbanismo táctico
Forord
Auto-Construction Redux
When Residents Appropriate the Street
Városi közösségi kertek Magyarországon
Grassroots temporary urbanism as a challenge to the city of austerity? Lessons from a self-organised park in Thessaloniki, Greece
Do It Yourself Urbanism
Everyday creativity in wall studios under China’s creative-city turn
The Trajectory of Berlin's ‘Interim Spaces’
De nouveaux mots pour de nouvelles modalités de fabrique de la ville ? Initiatives citadines d’aménagement des espaces publics
Claiming participation – a comparative analysis of DIY urbanism in Denmark
Preface
Bridging social capital and intersectional alliance
Fostering social cohesion at the neighbourhood scale
Challenging gentrification
Planning Temporariness
Migrants and Refugees
How Do Scholars Communicate the ‘Temporary Turn’ in Urban Studies? A Socio-Semiotic Framework
Planning-Related Protest as a Key to Understanding Urban Particularities
Reading Publicness
Inclusion and Exclusion in Urban Public Space
A people’s future of leisure studies
Charting New Ground
Guerrilla urbanism
Street furniture as a place-making tool
Coping with collective interests in a self-organised planning regime
Opportunity for informal business networking to reshape the institutional capacity of community in housing revitalization projects
Experimenting with sustainability education
Challenges in strategies for socioeconomic democratization. Assessing solidarity economy policies in Barcelona
Temporary and Tactical Urbanism in Australia
Incremental urbanism
‘Organic’ approaches to planning as densification strategy? The challenge of legal contextualisation in Buiksloterham, Amsterdam
Microfoundations and dynamics of do-it-yourself ecosystems
A systems thinking approach to inclusive governance
Commonfare as Urban Digital Platform
Exploring implementation mechanisms of Tactical Urbanism in Jordan
Pop-up Polanyi
Politics of social value in the built environment
Reclaiming the city one plot at a time? DIY garden projects, radical democracy, and the politics of spatial appropriation
The plurinational cycling revolution in Santiago de Chile
The Micro-Politics of Artistic Production among Artists with a Migration Background
Street, behavior, art
Social experiments and the praxis of geographical knowledge production
Heterogenic nature of guerrilla gardening
Situated Products
Guerrilla gardening as normalised law-breaking
Urban interventionism as a challenge to aesthetic order
The transformative (and potentially discriminatory) possibilities of animating public space
Impacts of social housing on urban transformations of informal settlements in Bogotá, Colombia
Do–It–Yourself Urban Design
DIY Urbanism and the Lens of the Commons
Asking ‘Third World questions’ of First World informality
State-Engineered Temporary Urbanism and Multi-Dimensional Adaptability of the Transitional Housing Scheme in Hong Kong
The Commoning of Public Goods by Residents of a Jakarta Apartment Complex
Concepts of Use-Value and Exchange-Value in Housing Research
Migrant women and everyday urbanism
Constructing citizenship at the margins
From object to encounter
Building a DIY skatepark and doing politics hands-on
The politics of urban knowledge
Socialising design? From consumption to production
Introduction to, and Interview with, Disabled People Against Cuts
The social capital of urban activism
Propositions for more just urban public spaces
Inoperative design
Toward a sensory approach to Tactical Urbanism
Spatial responsibilities during informal public events
Beyond Picturesque Decay
A Prefigurative Politics of Play in Public Places
Detroit Music City
Making Cultural Values out of Urban Ruins
Negotiating Spaces and the Public–Private Boundary
(In)visibilizing Vulnerable Community Members
Climate justice is social justice
An agile city? Tactical urbanism and responses to protracted displacement in the City of Amman, Jordan
Rethinking the Right to the City
Ambient struggling
The Micropolitics of Performance
Perspectives on Everyday Urbanism
The narrow margin of urban protest art
A comparative study of the right to the city in Iran
Geographical theorizing for a world of cities
What’s so new about New Municipalism
Geographic information science II
The autonomous city
Geographies of public space
Surface Tensions
Design and revolution
Belongingness and the Harlem drummers
Unbundling property in Boston’s urban food commons
Care, commoning and collectivity
Activating urban environments as social infrastructure through civic stewardship
Publics and the City
Hatred of democracy
Insurgent Public Space
Civil disobedience and tobacco control
From critical urban theory to the right to the city
The call and response of street art and the city
The ‘Right to the City’ in the context of shifting mottos of urban social movements
Police, politics, and the right to the city
The Interventionist's Toolkit
The production of space
The practice of everyday life
Excavating Lefebvre
The right to the city
| Unique citing works | 203 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 15,62 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 189 |