Temporary Appropriation in Cities

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvi

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2. General Introduction

   • Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez

   Pages 1-9

3. Understanding Temporary Appropriation and Social Sustainability

   • Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez, Alessandro Melis

   Pages 11-26

4. Between Assemblages and Temporary Appropriation: The Case of Mexico City

   • Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez, Alessandro Melis, Steffen Lehmann

   Pages 27-58

5. Temporary Appropriation and Informality

   • Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez, Alessandro Melis, Claire M. Coulter

   Pages 59-77

6. Ongoing Appropriation: Invisible Seattle and Red May

   • Keith Harris

   Pages 79-93

7. Temporary Appropriation and Public Space: Assessing the CPTED Principle of Activity Support

   • Alexander Gomez-Torres

   Pages 95-116

8. Temporary Appropriation of Public Spaces: The Influence of Outdoor Comfort

   • Daniele Santucci, Ata Chokhachian, Thomas Auer

   Pages 117-126

9. Origins of Informality: Examining the Historical and Spatial Roots of Informal Day-Labor Hiring Sites

   • Sean M. Crotty

   Pages 127-146

10. Unsheltered Homelessness and the Right to Metabolism: An Urban Political Ecology of Health and Sustainability

    • Jeff Rose

    Pages 147-156

11. Temporary Appropriation in Shanghai and Hong Kong: Two Study Cases Assessing the Resilience of Women Faced with the Lack of Affordable Housing

    • Alessandra Lai

    Pages 157-170

12. (Temporary) Appropriation (of Space), Makassar, and Urban Kampung

    • Brendan C. Josey, Diego Ramirez-Lovering

    Pages 171-193

13. Extending Temporary Appropriation Through Architecture: The Role of Adaptive Reuse in Shaping New Zealand’s Built Environment

    • Paola Boarin

    Pages 195-207

14. Using the Street in Mexico City Centre: Temporary Appropriation of Public Space Versus Legislation Governing Street Use

    • Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez, Alessandro Melis, Claire M. Coulter

    Pages 209-235

15. Transforming Everyday Public Space: Human Appropriations in Search for Citizenship and Urban Well-Being

    • Luisa Bravo

    Pages 237-244

16. General Conclusion

    • Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez, Alessandro Melis, James Thompson

    Pages 245-248

17. Back Matter

    Pages 249-256

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This book conceptualises and illustrates temporary appropriation as an urban phenomenon, exploring its contributions to citizenship, urban social sustainability and urban health. It explains how some forms of appropriation can be subversive, existing in a grey area between legal and illegal activities in the city.

The book explores the complex and the multi-scalar nature of temporary appropriation, and touches on its relationship to issues such as:

• sustainability and building re-use;
• culture;
• inclusivity, including socio-spatial inclusion;
• streetscape design;
• homelessness; and
• regulations controlling the use of public spaces.

The book focuses on temporary appropriation as a necessity of adapting human needs in a city, highlighting the flexibility that is needed within urban planning and the further research that should be undertaken in this area. The book utilises case studies of Auckland, Algiers and Mexico City, and other cities with diverse cultural and historical backgrounds, to explore how planning, design and development can occur whilst maintaining community diversity and resilience.

Since urban populations are certain to grow further, this is a key topic for understanding urban dynamics, and this book will be of interest to academics and practitioners alike.

• Urban Sustainability
• Temporary Appropriation
• Appropriation of Public Space
• Urban Health
• Citizenship
• Sustainable cities
• Urban Regeneration
• Formal/ Informal
• Planning Guidelines
• Urban Policy
• Informal space
• urban appropriation
• urban geography and urbanism

• School of Architecture, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK

  Alessandro Melis, Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez

• School of Design, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

  James Thompson

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