Engaged urbanism : cities & methodologies / edited by Ben Campkin & Ger Duijzings.

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Summary: Engaged Urbanism\' showcases the exciting ways in which urbanists are responding to this question and working towards fairer cities. Its authors offer succinct, candid and carefully illustrated commentaries on the trials and successes of risk-taking research, revealing how they collaborate across fields of expertise, inventing or adapting methods to suit bespoke situations. Featuring novel uses and combinations of practice-from activism, architectural design and undercover journalism, to film, sculpture, performance and photography- in a diversity of cities such as Beirut, Johannesburg, Kisumu, London and Rio de Janeiro, \'Engaged Urbanism\' demonstrates how some of the greatest challenges for present and future populations are being rigorously and creatively addressed.

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Engaged Urbanism showcases the exciting ways in which urbanists are responding to this question and working towards fairer cities. Its authors offer succinct, candid and carefully illustrated commentaries on the trials and successes of risk-taking research, revealing how they collaborate across fields of expertise, inventing or adapting methods to suit bespoke situations. Featuring novel uses and combinations of practice-from activism, architectural design and undercover journalism, to film, sculpture, performance and photography- in a diversity of cities such as Beirut, Johannesburg, Kisumu, London and Rio de Janeiro, Engaged Urbanism demonstrates how some of the greatest challenges for present and future populations are being rigorously and creatively addressed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Engaged Urbanism\' showcases the exciting ways in which urbanists are responding to this question and working towards fairer cities. Its authors offer succinct, candid and carefully illustrated commentaries on the trials and successes of risk-taking research, revealing how they collaborate across fields of expertise, inventing or adapting methods to suit bespoke situations. Featuring novel uses and combinations of practice-from activism, architectural design and undercover journalism, to film, sculpture, performance and photography- in a diversity of cities such as Beirut, Johannesburg, Kisumu, London and Rio de Janeiro, \'Engaged Urbanism\' demonstrates how some of the greatest challenges for present and future populations are being rigorously and creatively addressed.

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Preface and acknowledgements (p. vii)
Engaged urbanism: situated and experimental methodologies for fairer cities (p. 1)
I Frames
1 Cities methodologies matter: comparative urbanism and global urban theory (p. 23)
2 Methods, metaphors and the interdisciplinary terrain of urban research (p. 29)
II Site-Specific Collaborations
3 Site-Writing (p. 35)
4 Towards an architecture of engagement: researching contested urbanism and informalities (p. 45)
5 'Worlding' the studio: methodological experiments and the art of being Social (p. 53)
III Performance and Participation
6 From 'heroin' to heroines (p. 59)
7 Four palimpsests on the erasure of the Heygate Estate (p. 69)
8 Hacking London's demolition decisions: a new collaboration to scrutinise the technical justifications for retrofit, refurbishment and demolition (p. 77)
9 Authoring the neighbourhood in Wikipedia (p. 83)
10 The secret security guard: being a G4S employee during the London Olympic Games 2012 (p. 87)
11 Hide and seek: the dubious nature of plant life in high-security spaces (p. 97)
IV Situating Images and Imaginaries
12 The ups and downs of visualising contemporary Mumbai (p. 109)
13 Creating systematic records through time: the destruction and reconstruction of heritage areas affected by earthquakes in Chile (p. 117)
14 Paint. Buff. Shoot. Repeat: re-photographing graffiti in London (p. 125)
15 Critical urban learning through participatory photography (p. 131)
16 Assisted self-portraits and GUESTures: excerpts from a discussion on photography and participation (p. 139)
17 Picturing place: the agency of images in urban change (p. 147)
18 'Seeing is believing': the social life of urban decay and rebirth (p. 155)
19 'We thought we were making the car but it was the other way around': historical pathways and the ecology of the street network in industrial and post-industrial Detroit (p. 163)
V Embodied Cartographies
20 Lebensraum | living Space (p. 173)
21 Abdication and arrival: using an open-ended, collaborator-led ethnography to explore constructions of newly encountered cities (p. 181)
22 Learning to walk: on curating a walking-methodologies programme (p. 187)
23 I hear sounds inside my head (p. 199)
24 Charting smellscapes (p. 205)
25 Contra Band (p. 211)
VI Fabric and Fabrication
26 The twin sisters are 'about to' swap houses; displacement and the bordering practice of matching (p. 217)
27 City shapes and urban metaphor (p. 225)
28 (In)visible bodies; migrants in the city of gold (p. 231)
29 Negotiating space: the artist as creator and enabler of spaces for working, thinking and meeting (p. 237)
30 25 demolished houses (p. 249)
31 The bridge of sighs (p. 255)
32 Materials. Stories (p. 259)
33 Buildings on fire: towards a new approach to urban memory (p. 267)
Contributors (p. 277)
Index (p. 285)

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Ben Campkin is Senior Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and Director of UCL s Urban Laboratory. He is the author of Remaking London: Decline and Regeneration in Urban Culture (2015), which received the 2015 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Foundation Book Award. Ger Duijzings is Professor in Social Anthropology at the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, Universitat Regensburg and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Mu nchen, Germany. He was until 2014 Co-Director of the UCL Urban Laboratory. His most recent book is Global Villages: Rural and Urban Transformations in Contemporary Bulgaria (2013)."