The Multiple Temporalities of Informal Spaces

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ID5696393
AuthorsJoanne Hudson (0000-0003-4732-8356, University of Liverpool, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume9
Issue8
Pages461-481
Publication date2015-08-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeography Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1749-8198 • E-ISSN: 1749-8198
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/gec3.12221
OpenAlexW1956001860
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited14

This paper explores the various temporalities of wastelands and derelict spaces and how these influence their production, (re)production and use. Commonly conceived as voids within a city's fabric, it highlights with reference to two case studies, how these contested zones, far from being voids, represent sites of action where "multiple temporalities collide" (Crang, 2001: 189). As a consequence of temporal 'gaps' within spatial planning and redevelopment processes, as solid future visions 'melt into air' (Berman, 1982), other temporal rhythms occur as individuals appropriate these territories and "reclaim time as well as space" (Kivell and Hatfield, 1999: 123). The paper also considers the potential of such spaces and actions to act as a standpoint from which critical perspectives towards urban planning, and the distorted timescales that underpin it, can be generated

Aesthetics · Art · Civil engineering · Economic geography · Epistemology · Geography · Political science · Redevelopment · Sociology · Temporalities · Temporality · Vision · Anthropology · Computer Science · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Urban Planning and Governance · Urbanization and City Planning

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