This book advances the reflexion into how temporary urbanism is shaping cities across the world. Temporary urbanism has become a core concept in urban development, and its application is increasingly crossing the borders of both the North and the Global South. There is a need to reflect upon the diverse ways of understanding and implementing the temporary in the production of space internationally and discuss what this means, for both research and practice.
Divided into two sections, the book compiles and reflects upon the various attempts to reframe and reconceptualise temporary urbanism. The first section focuses on reframing and reconceptualising temporary urbanisms. It develops the argument that temporary urbanism allows a reinterrogation of the role of temporalities and non-permanence into the place-making process and hence in the production and reproduction of cities, including the adaptability of existing spaces and production of new spaces. While drawing upon different theoretical and conceptual framings (permeability, assemblage, rhythms, waiting, …), authors bring insights from various case studies: the Dublin Biennial (Ireland), temporary uses in Geneva (Switzerland), temporary urban settlements in sub-Saharan Africa, refugees’ camp in Beirut (Lebanon) and political protests in Skopje (Republic of Macedonia). The second section looks at unwrapping the complexity and diversity of temporary urbanisms. It aims at securing a better understanding of the complexity and diversity of temporary urbanism, including a dialogue between various experiences both in the Global North and in the Global South. It looks at the implications of temporary urbanism in the delivery of planning and considers how and by whom cities are governed and transformed. Again, a range of examples are mobilised by contributors spanning from temporary uses and projects in London (UK), Santiago (Chile), Paris (France), Vancouver (Canada), Barcelona (Spain), Budapest (Hungary), Beijing (China), Sao Paulo (Brazil) and Milwaukee (USA).
This book will be of interests to all researchers, practitioners, and students who want to gain a more thorough understanding of the topic of temporary urbanism, compare its diversity and similarities across different contexts, and reflect on the wider implications of temporary urbanisms for urban transformations.
Author(s): Lauren Andres, Amy Y. Zhang
Series: The Urban Book Series
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 251
City: Cham
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
1 Introduction—Setting-Up a Research Agenda for Temporary Urbanism
1.1 What is Temporary Urbanism?
1.2 Temporary Use and Flexibility in the Built Environment
1.3 A Research Agenda for Temporary Urbanism
References
Part IReframing and Reconceptualising Temporary Urbanisms
2 Temporariness Takes Command: How Temporary Urbanism Re-Assembles the City
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Temporary Exemptions
2.3 Maintaining the Myth of Transience
2.4 Temporariness as Opportunity
2.5 Durable But Mutable
2.6 Assembling New Actors
2.7 Temporary Uses Seen in Two Temporal Perspectives
2.8 The Benefits of the Temporary
2.9 Conclusion
References
3 The Temporality Within Temporary Urbanism: Listening to Rhythms and Timespace
3.1 Introduction: Time to Say Hello
3.2 Dublin Biennial: An Introduction
3.3 Section 1: Time in Geography from the 1970s to Now
3.3.1 Four Conjunctions of Time and Space in Human Geography
3.3.2 Timespace: Where Geography Should Go
3.4 Section 2: Dublin Biennial
3.4.1 Dublin Biennial: Dublin’s Neoliberal Urbanism
3.4.2 Dublin Biennial: A Discordant Rhythm
3.5 Conclusion
References
4 Artistic Events as Planning Practice: Hybridisation, Expectations, and Pitfalls in Three Swiss Case Studies
4.1 Introduction
4.2 A Tale of Two Worlds: Three Regimes of Hybridisation
4.3 Mediatising Urban Planning Through Artistic Events: Case Studies
4.4 Extension of the Scope of Action and Misunderstandings
4.4.1 Temporalities
4.4.2 Ethos
4.4.3 Mediation
4.5 Conclusion
References
5 Informality and Temporary Urbanism as Defiance: Tales of the Everyday Life and Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The Historical Context of Informality in Sub-Saharan Africa
5.3 The State in Sub-Saharan Africa, Policy Failure, and Socio-Political Informality
5.4 Informality and Temporary Urbanism: A Manifestation of Social Neglect and Exclusion
5.5 Conclusion: Informality and Everyday Living in Sub-Saharan Africa
References
6 Temporary Forms of Urbanism in Contested Urban Spaces in Lebanon: The Case of Dbayeh Camp
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Permanent Temporariness: Layers of Informality
6.2.1 Informality in the Lebanese Context: The Palestinian Spectrum
6.2.2 Informality of Dbayeh Camp: A Permanent ‘Terrain Vague’
6.3 People: Waiting Embodiment
6.3.1 Passive Waiting: A Form of Subordination and Feminisation
6.3.2 Active Waiting: A Constructive Force in Building Resiliency
6.4 Materiality: Spatial Strategies and Place-Attachment
6.4.1 Informality and Formality: A Hybridist Approach via Materiality and Praxis
6.4.2 Abandoned School: An Opportunity to ‘Unwall’ the Social Barrier
6.5 Conclusion
References
7 Political Protest, Temporary Urbanism and the Deactivation of Urban Spaces
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Methodology
7.3 The Meaning of Artistic Practices as a Form of Protest
7.4 Deactivation as a New Expression of Temporary Interventions
7.5 Political Transition in the Balkans and the Rise of Skopje as the European Capital of Kitsch
7.6 Deactivation as “Dissensual Moments” to Break Spatial Meaning
7.7 Deactivation as Catalyst for Temporary Differential Spaces
7.8 Memories of Deactivation or the Permanence of the Temporary?
7.9 Conclusion
References
Part IIUnwrapping the Complexity and Diversity of Temporary Urbanisms
8 Reimagining Urban Planning: From Institution to Innovation—A Comparative Exploration of Temporary Urbanism and the Future of City-Making
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Methodology
8.3 Defining the Terms
8.4 Reviewing Planning Practice
8.5 A Global Urban Reality
8.6 Disconnect Between Theory and Practice
8.7 Emergence of Alternative Practice
8.8 The Caselets
8.9 Santiago
8.9.1 Ciudad Emergente
8.9.2 Mapocho Pedaleable
8.9.3 Plazas de Bolsillo
8.10 London
8.10.1 Guerrilla Gardening
8.10.2 Skip Garden (King’s Cross)
8.10.3 Boxpark
8.11 Analysis and Discussion
8.11.1 The Emergence of Temporary Urbanism
8.11.2 Relationship with Planning
8.12 A Transformative Practice
8.12.1 Reimagining Urban Planning
8.13 Conclusion: A New Form of City-Making
8.14 Case Study Interviews
References
9 The Usefulness of Temporary Use: Narratives from Santiago’s Contemporary Urban Practices
9.1 Introduction
9.2 The Literature and Its Geographical Gap
9.3 Blurring the Dichotomy Between the Transitory and the Permanent
9.4 Incrementality: A Tool for Urban Learning
9.5 Final Reflections
References
10 Developing ‘Transient Urbanism’ as a New Urban and Real Estate Strategy: The Case of the French National Railway Company (SNCF)
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Renewing with the Temporary Occupation: Resources and Influences for Developing a ‘Cultural Real Estate’ at the SNCF
10.3 Launch of the Experiment: From the First Pilot Projects to the ‘Temporary Artistic Sites’ Approach
10.4 The Development of ‘Transient Urbanism’: Temporary Occupation to Support the Long-Term Urban Project
10.5 From Transient Urbanism to a Reflection on the Transformation of the City Over Time
10.6 Conclusion
References
11 Activated Alleyways: Mobilising Clean and Safe Dwelling in Business Improvement Areas
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Alleyways as Places in the Making
11.3 Mobilising Alleyways: Multiple and Made to Move
11.4 DVBIA’s Alley Oop Activation: Painted Pavements and Malls Without Walls
11.5 What is Being Activated?
References
12 Debating Temporary Uses and Post-crisis Rationales in Barcelona and Budapest
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Temporary Use of Vacant Spaces: Beyond Contestation and Co-optation
12.3 Barcelona and Budapest in Context
12.4 Emerging Discourses on Temporary Use
12.5 Post-crisis Rationales: Seeking Urban Commons and Promoting Placemaking
12.6 Conclusion
References
13 Address Urban Regeneration Challenge with Temporary Creative Uses: The Case of Beijing’s Dashilar Area
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Dashilar Area and Its Regeneration Challenge
13.3 Temporary Creative Uses as the Strategy
13.4 Discussion and Conclusion
References
14 Exploring Urban Regeneration Through Temporary Uses in Central São Paulo, Brazil
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Urban Reactivation by Temporary Uses in Brazil
14.3 São Paulo and Luz-Santa Ifigênia
14.4 Nova Luz Project: The Proposed Master Plan
14.5 Temporary Place-Making for Social Reactivation in Luz-Santa Ifigênia
14.6 Discussion and Conclusion
References
15 Temporary Urbanism in a Public Park: The Case of Postman Square, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
15.1 Introduction
15.2 Temporary Urbanism and the Literature Relevant to Postman Square
15.3 Temporary Urbanism at Postman Square: Findings
15.4 Temporary Urbanism at Postman Square: Discussion
15.5 Concluding Comments
References
16 Conclusion: Transforming Cities Through Temporary Urbanisms
16.1 Purposes and Contributions
16.2 Time, Temporality and Temporariness
16.3 Urban Planning, Governance and Politics
16.4 Conclusion
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